Adonis Praxis Edward. Little liar. As the car leaves the estate, carrying the kids plus Maddison, I watch from the rise of my office window. In her small, scheming mind, she thinks I didn’t hear. She thinks I didn’t catch the whispers from behind the closet door, the voices of both her brothers crackling from her phone, their panicked plan to rip her from my grasp today. She thinks the way she gave herself to me last night was just… goodbye. Except I’m not letting her go. “Yes, sir.” Leon arrives in my office. He follows my gaze out the window. “A taxi will pick her up at college. Anyone she enters that taxi with, I want you to follow. Be careful. Do not be spotted. Track where it stops. Once you have the location, I want at least thirty men in that place. When I arrive, you are to b

