Harold Donato considered himself a master manipulator, and we were chess pieces for him to arrange. It worked on Briar, Jesse and Logan. All this pain for nothing. They hadn’t even received the money they wanted. The effort he’d made to ensure I was single was alarming, and I itched to unravel his end goal. I could do that better if I kept Ray close. There wasn’t anything the old man could do that would surprise me.
