And then I put her away, gently, and let the strategist finish the work, because the strategist was the one who was going to get us both out alive.

There is a time to grieve what you believed, and a time to dismantle the man who made you stop believing it, and the whole art of surviving a person like Camden is knowing that you cannot do both in the same hour.

I gave the wife her thirty seconds with the marker.

Then I gave the rest of the night to the woman who knew where the master key was hidden.

Three hours later, checked into a quiet suite in the city, my phone lit with a message from Tamsin.