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Chapters (68)
  1. Biding Time
  2. Dedication
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-One
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Chapter Thirty-One
  37. Chapter Thirty-Two
  38. Chapter Thirty-Three
  39. Chapter Thirty-Four
  40. Chapter Thirty-Five
  41. Chapter Thirty-Six
  42. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  43. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  44. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  45. Chapter Forty
  46. Chapter Forty-One
  47. Chapter Forty-Two
  48. Chapter Forty-Three
  49. Chapter Forty-Four
  50. Chapter Forty-Five
  51. Chapter Forty-Six
  52. Chapter Forty-Seven
  53. Chapter Forty-Eight
  54. Chapter Forty-Nine
  55. Chapter Fifty
  56. Chapter Fifty-One
  57. Chapter Fifty-Two
  58. Chapter Fifty-Three
  59. Chapter Fifty-Four
  60. Chapter Fifty-Five
  61. Chapter Fifty-Six
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Other Titles by Lyn Gardner
  64. Going on Red
  65. Choices
  66. Born Out of Wedlock
  67. Give Me A Reason
  68. Mistletoe

Cathleen walked up to Lisa, and taking her hand, she led her back to the lounge. Plopping onto the sofa, Cathleen patted the cushion next to her, urging Lisa to do the same before looking over her shoulder. “We aren’t offering ourselves up as human sacrifices, Bennett. All we’re doing is making sure those we care about come back to us. So…anyone else care to join in the bloodletting?”

Kenna and Fallon exchanged looks, and a minute later, Polly and Angelique followed them to another sofa, passing Finn as they did.

Finn dropped his chin to his chest for a second, and then holding his head high, he walked over to Ruby. “I wanted to kill you yesterday, but I spoke to my parents earlier. Lisa didn’t share all the details, but she said without you, she wouldn’t be alive.”

“I was just in the right place at the right time. That’s all.”

“So am I,” Finn said, holding out his hand. “And this is the right thing to do.”

Anger had carved itself into Bennett’s features, but that didn’t deter Gus. He ambled over, stopping only once he’d put Bennett in his six-foot-eight inch shadow. “We’re all in agreement on this, Bennett. What we’re doing right now is making sure all of you, and I mean all of you, come back to us. So put away your indignation and your anger. Pack up your principles and stow away the storm that’s brewing inside of you because, right now, you ain’t going to get your way. But when you find that son-of-a-bitch, Bennett…when you’re looking in the eye of the prick who tried to kill my children, I want you to unpack every ounce of that outrage and fury…and let it rip.”

Chapter Fifty-One

In a van loaded with an arsenal of weapons, they made their way to Concord. Snow had begun to fall shortly after they left Max’s at five-thirty on Sunday night, and at first, they were lazy tiny flakes mindlessly floating to earth, and then they weren’t. Ruby had to correct the wheel more than once when a gust of wind pushed them into the oncoming lane, yet as bothersome as the storm was, it also wasn’t.

Slashed tires had thwarted their escape the night before, but that wouldn’t be the case tonight. The snow was quickly masking the vehicle's obsidian exterior in a coating of white, and four miles from Napoleon’s home, when Ruby guided the van into a small clearing in the trees, it was swallowed up by the whiteness.