Taken by my stepfathers
Eden's POV
Michael came to the library on a Friday afternoon with his laptop and the look he wore when he'd found more than he expected.
"Talk," I said.
He sat, turned the screen toward me, and started from the beginning. "Marcus is based in Hamburg. Private security background, twelve years working intelligence for a European financial consortium I've been pulling apart layer by layer. He's careful, the kind of careful that tells me this isn't his first operation like this. But careful people still leave patterns, and I followed his long enough to build a picture."