Reed’s POV

Reed was halfway through arguing with Carmen about whether babies could actually sense emotional tension when his phone started ringing.

He glanced at the screen, it was Damian Blackwood.

For a second, he considered not answering.

Not out of spite—though there was some of that—but because he already knew what this call would be about. The case had crossed a line today, several lines, actually. Legal ones, moral ones, emotional ones. And Reed had spent the better part of ...