The helicopter’s roar filled the cabin, a heavy sound that swallowed everything except the sharp tension stretching between Tessa and Nathan. She sat right beside him, so pale and still she looked carved out of wax.

Nathan didn’t dare touch her. Not now, not while his head was still caught on her words. The betrayal. The fact that Tessa had secretly worked to free a man already convicted of destroying thousands of families, including his own.

His hands clenched on his thighs. His ...