My jaw dropped! I called Tristan back immediately. “Bond?”

"Yeah. Family bonding, getting familiar with my girlfriend, whatever. Pack light, you won't need most of your items anyway."

Normally, I was supposed to travel twenty-four hours before the ceremony, but a full fourteen days under the same sprawling roof as Malcolm Cross? Wow. I had chills already.

The jet was a Gulfstream outfitted entirely by Aegis Bio-Sensory.

I sat alone in the leather cabin, thirty thousand feet above the ...