"It's not gone. I was going to pay her back!" Dominic plows a hand through his hair giving it a wild, disheveled look. A panicked note I've never heard before creeps into his voice. "I needed to get everything under control. You have to believe me! I was just borrowing it. You wouldn't have ever known it was missing," he rambles.

Brimming with disbelief, I shake my head as his excuses roll around in my mind like marbles. "I don't understand how you could pay someone to hurt ...