Chapter 24

Cora POV

I woke before dawn, the house still breathing in soft shadows. My chest felt tight with a mixture of nerves and something that looked dangerously like excitement. Today I would walk into one woman’s carefully constructed life and ask questions she wasn’t expecting. I rolled out of bed and moved with purpose.

At my closet I stood for a long minute, fingers sliding over fabrics as if each could change the shape of the confrontation. I didn’t want to look like a threat ...