What to do? Alice chewed her lip. The logical choice was to dump him the first chance she got; he was a liar, a liability, a murderer. Who even knew if this story was the truth? And yet he’d saved her life at the shipyard, and rescued her from the FBI. Their goals aligned, and without him she was left with Conner, hiding out in New York, and Toko, a family man she loved too much to risk. The chance of her ever working though this, and finding Julia’s killer, was small with his help, zero without it. She had to decide, here and now—give up and run, or accept his help in the knowledge he could betray her at any time.