Chapter 20) Pig Farmers & Prickly Protesters

Vic couldn’t tell if her nerves were from the promise of Rowan’s impending interrogation or the nausea of her brother’s betrayal being another mess for her to clean up. She wanted to be hurt that Rocco and Max had avoided speaking to her and that Maddie kept herself distant, but she understood, the unfortunate truth behind the life they all lived was that it was hard to trust people and even harder to prove you were worth the risk of trust. Money might make the world function but trusting the wrong person usually got you and your entire family killed.

The first and largest of the Bura Farms sauntered into view as their motorcade of cars drove toward what Vic hoped would be the first of many trips and not the last. As the gates were pulled open, she noticed most of the workers were standing outside the building rather than working and as the car came to a stop Vic jumped out without thinking. Rocco’s hand clamped around her upper arm like a cuff, but he didn’t squeeze, “don’t go far,”