“Don’t bury her—that’s not her in the coffin!” a little girl cries out at a Chicago funeral, stopping everything as a shocking truth inside the coffin is revealed

men bore the same marking as Cole so that suspicion would fall there.

Gabriel punished the guilty, dismissed the compromised, and stripped away every rotten layer of his organization.

But the deeper reckoning happened behind Caroline’s closed door.

He told her everything.

Caroline listened without speaking, one hand resting protectively over her belly.continue reading …