Blood and Betrayal
I thought of Toby, sleeping in his chair, unaware of the wolves at the door.
“You’re not touching her,” I said, my finger tightening on the trigger.
“I don’t have to touch her,” Silas said. “We have the mother. We have the ‘Anchor.’ And we have Arthur Vance. Did you really think a man like Vance would turn on the hand that fed him for twenty years? He didn’t save Lisa. He placed her in a location where we could monitor the gestation without interference from Laredo’s theatrics.”
He reached into his coat and pulled out a small, black device—a remote detonator.