Chapter 146: Max

Sunday. Safe House, Boa Vista, Brazil.

THE GRAY DAWN BROKE on the horizon as Max and the others rolled through the front gate of the safe house. He eyed the surveillance men. They were mostly the same ones he'd seen before he'd left. Still the battle hardened faces of men who knew what they were doing.

Which meant it was Sonny keeping an eye on them and bypassing Thomas.

Max hadn't seen it until the very end, but there was a dividing line between Thomas and Sonny. The two didn't always know what the other was doing.

Fuck all of them.

Vito pulled the SUV into the garage where they could safely unload. They needed to keep Max and Aspen's whereabouts under wraps for as long as possible.

It had taken them hours to land and get back. More time than he'd have thought necessary. All of which meant that Lumen was still back there. Alone. Going through who knew what.

Max stuffed all the frustration down inside of him as he opened the SUV door and helped Aspen out. She'd held he