CHAPTER 1
THOSE WHO KNOW despair once knew hope...
Those who know loss once knew love...
The voice of the man who’d ordered my husband’s death echoed in my ears, as did the crack my phone made when I hurled it against the wall after I hung up on him.
As if killing Black wasn’t bad enough, now he had to call me and gloat over it? And not only that, if I tried to do anything about the state of affairs, he’d start taking out the other people I cared for. The situation made me want to break bones. His bones.
But that was out of the question.
As I stormed out of the control room and down the corridor, memories of Black’s death flew through my head, as crystal clear as if it had happened yesterday. And I was mad. Mad in a way I’d never been before.
Employees scattered like bowling pins as
