Blake's POV
The satellite imagery of the Sanctuary Recovery Center spread across my desk like a taunt, they were thirty acres of Colorado mountain property, sophisticated security systems, legal documentation that made conventional rescue impossible.
And somewhere inside those walls, Aloe was being held under psychiatric commitment while I sat in Manhattan facing federal charges.
"The facility is licensed by the state, inspected by health authorities, and operating completely within legal parameters," my attorney Margaret Chen explained for the third time. "There's no legal basis for intervention."
"She's being held against her will."
"She's receiving psychiatric treatment under Colorado's involuntary commitment laws.
Those laws exist to protect people from harming themselves or ot
