Utah
Early the next morning
Briley approached The Garden of Divine Light from the south road, the one that didn’t go through Walton. It took an extra hour to go around, switch roads, and come back this way, but she was used to it. It was better than being seen by the townspeople going to and from the compound.
She couldn’t let her fellow police officers see either.
She pulled up to the guardhouse at the gate, saw that it was that creep Michael on the gate this morning. To be fair, the Guardians were all creeps, but this one hadn’t fully shaken his ex-pimp vibes when it came to looking at women, and he also had a pathetic, puppy dog desperation to please. Briley knew just by looking at him that Michael wanted nothing more than to crawl up Gideon’s golden ass and live there. Michael woul
