Chapter 102

Declan

Roxanne’s crying shifts everything in the room. Not just because she’s crying, but because Roxanne never lets anyone hear her cry. She’s normally all performance, tears on cue, ready to weaponize them.

But the woman on the phone right now is terrified. And that scares me, too.

“Vera,” I say, eyes glued to the screen, “get Martin.”

She doesn’t question me. That alone tells me just how gr