Chapter 313

KING My chronic lack of a social life is more acute than usual tonight. I have nothing to do but sit in my apartment and think about Mason and what he might be doing. It’s either that or bury myself in work, and the latter holds no appeal to me at this moment. The fact that my father was somehow involved in Cassidy’s disappearance is obvious to me now, and I need some time to sit with that and figure out my next steps. It will take careful digging to not aggravate him too much now that he knows I’m onto him. He might be a weak man and a coward, but he’s powerful in all the ways that matter. He knows a lot of the right people in the right places and has enough money to make almost anything disappear. Including poor Cassidy Jones and any evidence there might be connecting him to her. If I don’t tread carefully, I may never get the answers Curtis needs. Without work, my thoughts are back to my only other source of frustration—Mason James. I doubt he’s sitting alone at home, staring at a b