The Denver office is smaller than what I'm used to, but it serves its purpose.

Distance. Control. A fresh start where no one knows our business.

I lean back in my desk chair, watching the city sprawl through my window. Three weeks since we moved here, and already I can see the difference in Lily. She's more compliant. More dependent.

More mine.

The move was necessary after that bastard in Wichita started following us. I noticed him first about a month ago—always in a dark sedan, always at a ...