The room went silent.
Not the peaceful kind of silence.
The kind that comes right before something breaks.
Ava looked at the person standing in the doorway.
And her heart dropped.
Because she knew them.
Someone she had trusted.
Someone she never expected to fear.
"Mr. Carter?"
Her voice was barely a whisper.
Damien looked at her.
Then at the older man standing there.
His expression changed immediately.
"You know him?"
Ava couldn't answer.
Because she was trying to understand how the man who had helped her after her father's downfall...
The man who had listened to her.
The man