Kristen I was bluffing of course, Garrick would never testify on my behalf. Spirko and some of Ezra’s men had driven Garrick to Albany and dropped him downtown with nothing but the clothes on his back. I know Ezra was worried that Garrick might turn up again someday when we least expected it. But the moment Ezra had stripped him of his rank and exiled him from the pack, he had cut him off from the source of his strength. The families that had bankrolled his attempt at an uprising had all of their assets seized and were imprisoned. The pack of rogues that had served as his lackeys had scattered like cockroaches once they were exposed. If Garrick ever came back, I hoped he would come back as a humble man. I had no such hopes or expectations of my ex-husband. Kevin’s ego and arrogance se

