Chapter 268: Threat

Artemis had always wanted to leave and kept asking how the paperwork was coming along. The truth is, I'd finished the paperwork a while back, but I lied and said it still wasn't done. I needed Artemis to protect everyone. I couldn't be home all the time, but she could, and I completely trusted her skills. Artemis was happy to protect Nila-it was her way of paying me back for getting her paperwork sorted. On the eighth day, right after dinner, I got a mysterious call from a blocked number. "Caden...