tire tracks in the gravel. The sound of the engines fad

use, Britteny

shrieked at the maid. "You let

g air hitting her face. Her hands were shaking. She shoved them into her poc

ath, trying to stea

he turned her head. Jimmy Lynch was walking to

against the wooden railing, looking out at the ocean.

quiet but intense. "Are you really

nd the warm mug. The heat bit

he island tomor

lder, his fingers digging into her flesh through her thin

rleen. He's a shark. He's a predator. He doesn't just beat

years ago," Darleen

wants those kids, he will take them. He has the best lawyers in th

in her eyes was gone, replaced by

I have a choice? Do I just hand them over to

at her, una

"It's the only way I stay in the pict

West doesn't marry for kids. He doesn't

e is a contract. It's an exchange of assets. I have somet

t time. The quiet, broken girl he had known was gone. I

urts you," Jimmy said softly, "I don't care how

roat. She nodded. "Thank you,

ng back at the house. "She's losing her mind in t

dow moved. Meredith Reynolds stood in the dim light, her face a mask

and walked away

try," Dar

bag. She didn't pack fancy clothes. She didn't pack makeup. She reached into

dden pocket of her bag. It

r. Aria padded in, dragging

ing her eyes. "Will the sti

e in her daughter's hair. The little gi

leen whispered.

as cleaning his glasses on his shirt

said, his voice quiet. "He

ut Aria down and walked over to

hurt us," she s

but his eyes

t up. A text from an unknown number. A flight i

k a single wo

ictures of the kids, past the screenshots of docu

a boarding pass. The Le

een, her thumb tracin

Bernardo West," she