XAVIER’s POV

Power can protect you in the boardroom But at home, with a child’s safety on the line? Power feels useless unless you turn it into armor.

And tonight, I needed to be that armor.

Danger doesn’t always come with guns and masks.

Sometimes, it wears a badge and smiles politely while it threatens to take your child away.

That was the kind of danger Daphne faced tonight.

I’d arrived too late to stop it, but not too late to see what it did to her.

CPS had left her apartment with ...