Eve’s eyebrows shot up. “The waitress, Erika?”
“That’s who Marcus said came to ask if anyone had collected the photo,” Mia confirmed, showing Milly the note.
“I’ll get it checked out,” Milly said, taking the note and studying it. “Now get some sleep. We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow.”
“Milly,” Eve said, indicating for her to come to her adjoining room.
Once they were alone, Eve asked softly, “Be honest. Just how much danger are we in?”
Milly’s expression grew serious, her eyes hard. “The kind of danger that doesn’t think twice about sending an assassin to eliminate threats.”
19
DAVID
David turned over in bed for what felt like the hundredth time that night.
Sleep had escaped him completely.
His mind kept ticking over everything that had happened. The moment Mia had stepped out of that car. The recognition. The memories flooding back. Her face. Nancy’s face looking back at him through their daughter.
Twenty-eight years collapsed into a single heartbeat.
He turned and saw the photograph on his bedside table, the one Lila had found in his room. Nancy and Morgan, frozen in time. Mother and daughter smiling at the camera, as if they had all the time in the world.
It didn’t seem real.
Then anger ripped through him, hot and sharp.
William.
William had known they were here. Had known he’d put David’s daughter and granddaughter in danger by bringing them here. Now, of all times to bring them to St. Augustine.
It took everything he had not to call his uncle right then and there, no matter that it was only four thirty in the morning.
David glanced at Chaos’s empty bed near the door. His dog was out on patrol with Dan, doing a perimeter sweep of the property.
He needed to get some sleep.
But the moment he’d laid eyes on Mor...
No.
Mia.
He smiled as her name settled in his mind, feeling the rightness of it.
Morgan Isabella-Anne.
Mia.
“That was so clever, my love,” David whispered, turning to look at the photo again. Nancy had always been brilliant. Taking their daughter’s full name and creating something new. Something safe.
“Mia. I like it.”
A noise came from the other room.
David went still, listening.
