NICHOLAS’S POV

I never thought the word calm would ever belong to me, never thought I did see this side of myself.

Not in my blood, not in my nature but the past weeks have humbled me. The loss, the fear, the desperate clawing at every lead to bring the girls home, it changed something in me.

It stripped me bare, kept me calm and stripped me of the arrogance I wore like armour for years.

I still watch her closely, though, not because I don’t trust her but because she reminds me so much of ...