The Cost of Secrets

VANCE’S POV

The promise in it is so calm and so menacing that Malachi actually lets go.

He takes a deliberate step back, looking at me with the expression of a man who has completely run out of approaches.

I cross the room and drop to one knee right in his line of sight. Dead centre. Eye level.

I put myself close enough that turning away means moving Trent’s body, anchoring Carter exactly where I