Chapter 99

Nora POV

Vincent is still asleep beside me when I slip out of bed at six the next morning. Lucy is curled against his chest, her small hand fisted in his T-shirt, breathing slow and even. The sight of them together usually steadies me. This morning it only makes the knot in my stomach tighten.

I pad into the kitchen in bare feet, close the door softly behind me, and pour coffee with shaking hands. The anonymous text sits on my phone like a live wire. I’ve read it so many times the words have lost their shape.

“Daddy’s protection is gone, princess. It’s time to pay your father’s debts. Where’s the ledger?”

Even dead, Malcolm still finds a way to fuck up my life.

The man I spent my childhood watching from behind half-closed doors while he conducted business in smoke-filled rooms. The m