Chapter 7

Avery's POV

The day my mother was forcibly sent overseas, I didn't go to the airport. I was locked in the villa, quietly watching the sky outside the window.

It was also that day, during a maid's trash disposal break, that I managed to get an old phone and contacted Julian Knight.

Julian was the CEO of a mysterious organization in New York, and a client Dylan had once fiercely defended in court. He owed my brother a favor.

"Julian, please, do me a favor." My voice was calm. "Intercept my mother's medical transport overseas. Then, help me orchestrate a…