Chapter 199

• Christa
• When Colson first told me that he intended to spend time with Jenny, I had fought him. My daughter was the most important thing in the world to me, and I would die to defend her. I would kill to defend her. Right now, despite our past, Colson felt like a threat. He was prone to angry outbursts and violence, and I worried that he would direct those qualities at Jenny.
• I didn’t want to expose Jenny to danger if I could help it, but Colson had persisted. To be honest, there wasn’t much I could do to prevent them from getting to know one another. But when I finally relented, it came with conditions. First, there would be no secrets between them. If anything happened, I wanted to know about it immediately. And second, Colson couldn’t expose my secret to her.