On the drive to the Hale residence, my mind hadn't stopped moving. Spending time up close with Dominic and his family had given me a clearer picture of who they actually were. His two sons were nothing alike one was almost painfully earnest, the kind of person who led with his heart before his head, while the other had quietly made protecting his family his entire purpose. Amber's focus had been fixed on Lewis from the start. And Dominic himself had been so consumed by his need for revenge against the Morrigans that the Hales barely registered as a concern to him.
That was the part that kept pulling at me.
If the Blackwells weren't interested in the Hales, then whoever was targeting them had simply used the Blackwells to do it. They were a weapon pointed in the right direction by someone else entirely. And the more I turned it over, the more I suspected that the Commander and his wife weren't just connected to the organization they were likely near the top of it.
