And my blood went cold.
Because I knew him.
Travis Mercer.
The same developer who’d been trying to buy my land for a year.
He smiled wider. “Mr. Dalton, isn’t it? Funny running into you here. You still thinking about selling that farm?”
I stared at him, then at Claire, then back at the clinic doors where the nurses had taken her mother.
That was the moment I understood this wasn’t some random woman on a hot road.
She had run straight into the one fight I’d been trying to avoid.
And when Claire pressed a crumpled envelope into my hand and whispered, “Don’t let him see this,” I knew my quiet life was over.
Inside the envelope was a payroll ledger… and my dead wife’s name was on the last page.
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testing And my blood went cold.
