James POV
I knew Tony Bradley the way you know a storm is coming before it arrives.
Not personally. We'd never been in the same room, but his name had appeared on my radar four years ago when he married Sofia in what she later described as the worst eighteen months of her life.
She'd come back to Boston with bruises and a story she told and I'd believed her.
I'd never verified a single word of it.
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Marcus was already on his phone before I could speak.
"Tony Bradley," I said anyway.
"I heard," Marcus said, "Give me ten minutes."
Rose was still looking at her screen. Her thumb moved over Claire's message like she was reading it again looking for something she'd missed.
"You know him," she said.
"I know of him. Sofia's ex-husband. Construction money. He remarried about eight mo
