Chapter 21 The Private Investigator

• The next morning, Mia woke with the strange feeling that something had changed.
• She couldn't explain it. Maybe it was because Lily had called her Mommy at school. Maybe it was because Adrian had held her in the pantry when she cried. Or maybe it was because, for one terrifying moment, his words had sounded less like those of a man trapped in a contract and more like a man who had started to care.
• She pushed the thought away. This was a contract.