HAZEL

I missed a step while processing his words and stumbled forward, but Corbin caught me before I hit the ground. Since we met, he’d been catching me. How dumb of me to question him.

"That’s why you said those things?" I asked, disbelief clouding my words, but I didn’t disbelieve him. In fact, I believed Corbin with everything in that moment.

How had I been such a fool to think he’d give me over to a Chicago mobster? I climbed out the ...