The morning after the phone call, Elena arrived at headquarters with baby Lidia and a plan. She had spent the hours before dawn nursing her daughter and assembling the pieces of a puzzle she had not known she was solving. Blackthorne Industries, silk technology scandals, Cecilia Bianchi's convenient resurrection into their world, and Dante's midnight promises about timelines and agreements.

I'm not ready to lose her.

The words had played on loop through her sleepless night, each repetition ...