After Nolan’s bombshell during breakfast, I don’t even wait for Nolan’s office door—or whatever the room is he disappears into with his enforcers—to close before I’m sprinting down the hallway toward the front door.

But before I reach it, Liam steps out and blocks my path.

“Don’t you have cleaning to do?”

I start working out how I can tackle him without it costing me my life, but before I do, Nolan calls out from the room Liam emerged from.

“Let her go. The girl just ...