And someone had hurt her.

I watched Leo’s jaw work as he stared at the little I could tell them.

I watched Hayes go very quiet, which was always the dangerous thing with Hayes.

I watched Marcus take off his glasses and clean them with hands that were not quite steady.

And I understood that my hardest job was not going to be motivating these men.

It was going to be restraining them — pointing all of that love and all of that fury at a courthouse instead of at three young men’s throats.