“IT WAS DUMB LUCK BRENDAN wasn’t there,” he went on. “I had him with me. A trip to another city, for business. I wanted to give Nika a break from having to be mother to both of the men in her life.”
He stared down at the floor, memories crowding his face. “Stupid. I was so stupid. I should have known.”
Feeling breathless and dizzy, Mallory tried to say something comforting to him. Anything. Words stuck in her craw and all she could do was hate herself for loving Garnett so much. The man had lost his wife to a Shifter, and he dealt every day with the fear he was going to lose control and strike out at his son. That he might even kill the boy.
Was that part of why he’d hired a nanny? Was he looking for someone to watch over Brendan, someone other than himself, in the deep of the night whe
