POV: Olivia

Dominic read the note twice. I watched him read it twice and I watched what happened to his face as he finished reading and looked up at me, what I saw was not the fear or the fury or the devastation that I would have expected, that would have been entirely justified. What I saw was a man making a decision. A complete, total, irreversible decision about what he was going to do next, executed in the space of a single breath. He took out his phone.

“Don’t,” I said immediately, recalling the note. “ She said don’t call the police or they come back in pieces.” I...