BEYOND THE CONTRACT
Brooks.
She froze.
Her father’s full name was Andrew Brooks.
Her fingers tightened around the phone.
A deep, shaky breath left her lips as she stood up again, pacing back and forth. “It can’t be him. It can’t. He’s gone,” she whispered.
But her heart didn’t believe it.
Outside, thunder rolled faintly in the distance, and raindrops began to tap softly against the window. The sound filled the silence, a steady rhythm that somehow matched the racing of her thoughts.