But no one was smiling when Merry delivered her news. By the time she arrived, the party was winding down. She'd dressed for it anyway, in a little black dress with a patent leather belt. She looked gorgeous, but barely managed a smile when he introduced her to Aiden. They gathered in a corner of the hangar for privacy.
"I came here to warn you all. I don't know how to say it, besides just spitting it out. The newspaper is running a story about your father and the murder case. I've been told it'll be in the Sunday edition. Tomorrow," she clarified, wincing. "I'm so sorry."
Will experienced a surreal flash of dislocation, as if everything was shifting around him. He couldn't speak. Couldn't react. He felt frozen.
"Why?" asked Tobias. That forbidding scowl would have scared off most women
