I knew his face from a portrait, and from five years of nightmares.

Arthur Vance — the retired founder of Vance Global, Flynn’s grandfather, the patriarch whose life I had wrecked my own to save.

His eyes went to Mason, asleep and flushed in the bed, and he stopped as though he had walked into a wall.

“Flynn,” the old man said, very quietly.

“Whose child is that?”

Before Flynn could answer, a second figure appeared in the doorway behind Arthur — Mr.