(Ridge)
The drive to the safe house took ten minutes.
Mira sat beside me with her hands in her lap and her eyes on the road ahead. She wasn't talking and I wasn't pushing her to. She'd said what she needed to say last night and this morning and everything between then and now was hers to sit with however she needed to.
I kept both hands on the wheel and thought about what was waiting on the other side of that door. Nolan had no idea what was coming. He'd sat in that room thinking he still had something over Mira and he was about to find out how wrong he was about that.
I thought about what Mira had said last night. About wanting him to see who she'd become. That wasn't weakness walking into that room. That was someone who had already won and knew it and was simply showing up to make it
