Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter.

Dimitri Belikov had arrived.

“I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name…”

“Ξεκινησα για να σκοτωσω τον αντρα που αγαπουσα.”

“Everything about her has to do with me.”

“That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and…”