hand had crept halfway around the dial, yet

led down the wind

the cold air inside the car. A low, gruff o

sharp, unyielding edge, and carrie

iously. He obediently slammed the window back u

s being delayed all the way until today! My dad just gave me a serious dressing-down over the phone and laid down an ultimatum: I've got to bring

wer drill drilling into his skull. He suppressed the cold fury simmering in his eyes, leaned back, an

lso my f

ords plunged the ca

the Carmel family had bu

wn up with Hill in the same elite compound, yet over the years, he'd come to realize t

han the man in the back seat, a figure whose name str

the Frazier patriarch-leaving the family owing a debt of honor-

ered in Car

. From what he'd dug up, she was ordinary in ever

's o

e corner of his eye, he spotted a figure slowly wa

er. I'll

e back, unbuckled his seatbelt, and

ight, the slender

was a pair of legs-slender, pale,

evably

ngled with A-listers and socialites for ye

llaries visible beneath the surface. She had a porcelain face, pitch-black eyes, and lashes long as a feather duster-t

s he'd met, Carmel couldn