Chapter TWENTY-EIGHT ELLIE

A few days had passed since our night out.

Andres had been working crazy hours, and even though he came home for dinner every night, he went back to the office right after.

I tried to ask him what he was working on, and he told me not to worry. He was taking care of it.

Dread filled me. I knew it must have had something to do with Gary and his lawsuits.

One after the other, they came every day in the mail. The bastard was suing me for just about everything.

Mine and Sammy’s trust funds. My inheritance. Maxwell Mining. Alimony. The condo where he lived.

But the worst of it was, of course, his suit for visitation rights and sole custody of Sammy.

I’d give Gary all of my possessions and money if he would just go away. But he wouldn’t.

I knew him well enough to know he got his real kicks off of control. That man was a demon, and not in any good or sexy kind of way.

He was evil. And vile. And I hated him.