Chapter Two

**Jace**

I sat in my car at a small gas station in Ontario, California, and watched as dawn crest the horizon in the east. I had taken an overnight flight and then driven straight here from the airport in Los Angeles. Besides the little bit I got on the plane, I hadn’t slept.

I, of course, didn’t have her address, so I was scanning through my phone. Her last name was Vance, and I had found a local