LAKE

She worried me. What she’d just witnessed was traumatizing that she shouldn’t have seen. And she just slept it off and didn’t want to talk about it.

I informed Owen. “When is the jet going to be ready? I have to take Maverick out of here.”

“I’m so sorry, boss. She must have been terrified.”

I shook my head without a word. There were no words to describe what had just happened in two days. These people were terrible for her and would do nothing but cause her pain and put her life in danger.

That was my biggest regret of digging up her family tree. I’d seen and...