JACKSON’S POV

Before I got to Vera’s house after Nathan called, the police had already arrived. I met them in the parking lot just as Nathan and a dark-skinned girl were being placed in an ambulance.

I wanted to jump back into my car and follow them to the hospital, but I needed to speak with the officers and check the footage their cameras captured.

Harry, a big guy with messy hair who looks more like a street thug than a cop, was assigned to show me what the security camera recorded. Harry’s story is a wild one, he grew up in one of the roughest parts of town. The...