Chapter 3

I stepped around Colsen, walking right up to Samuel. "You really think I came back for a man like you?"

Seeing his stunned expression, I took a small recorder from my clutch and hit play.

After a hiss of static, an old, vicious voice sounded. "Sam, we can't let Rachel Preston be around. She's too clever, too ambitious. If she doesn't go, she'll be a disaster to the Hampton family sooner or later.

"I've already set things up. Just call it a brake failure, an accident. Relax, as long as you play along and marry into the Kuhn family, everything…