Racheal watched Skylar get into the speedboat, and return to the jet she said had brought her, parked on a helipad somewhere.

She returned upstairs to her suite and sat thinking.

She thought about all the times Steffan had stood up for her, defended her against even his own parents.

She knew he was not a monster.

Hot-headed, not a monster.

She remembered how he had comforted the teenage Isaac’s mother after yelling at the woman in defense of her too.

How much respect he ...