Chapter 4

In the middle of November, Liam rolled into Oakhaven.

He didn't bother with a heads-up—he just camped out in front of my office building.

Sophia was right there with him.

The BMW X7 was idling at the curb, and Sophia was perched in the passenger seat, fixated on her lipstick in the vanity mirror.

Liam was lounging against the driver's side door, and the second he spotted me, he flashed that high-wattage grin.

"Hey, look who it is! Long time no see," he called out.

His voice was a complete 180 from the venom he'd been spitting on the phone.