Anastasia’s POV:
I did not show Lucas the photograph.
Not because I was hiding it from him but because some things needed to be processed alone before they became conversations and this was one of them. I stood on that airfield with the cold air on my face and Isla Mercer’s message on my screen and I looked at the photograph for a long time before I put my phone in my bag and turned back toward the car with an expression I had spent years perfecting, the one that said everything is fine when everything was the opposite of fine.
Lucas was talking to Patricia. Something procedural about the federal case and Fontaine’s cooperation agreement and the timeline for the inheritance documents. I stood at a slight distance and let him handle it and used the time to think.
Dean.
I had known Dean
