~ RIG ~
I’d talked to her that morning, explaining a wide variety of scenarios that we could meet on this day. I’d even briefly discussed what to do if she ended up in my father’s hands. But I hadn’t really expected it to happen. Hadn’t really thought he was that far ahead of me.
And this… this was never what we’d discussed—Dad having Stephen as well as my mother and sister?
No. No, the pressure was too much. There were too many cards stacked against us. He had ignored the challenge and kept me here and now my head spun because I couldn’t see my way clear with all these things stacked against me.
When she said the Night Walker wasn’t loyal to my father anymore, I wanted to laugh. Who cared?! He was so desperately outnumbered here, there was no point even revealing that she’d gotten to him.
We needed to regroup. I needed to get Cara out of my father’s hands. And I needed to call off the wolves—