Chapter 116: Hit Home

Ford Dixon was in a foul mood, though he couldn't quite say why. Some things were out of his hands, and that stung. Alex Hayde was only twenty-three-the prime of his youth, the age when life is supposed to be sweet. Ford kept stealing glances at him and asked, "You ever heard of Mateo Dixon?" Alex went blank as soon as he heard the name. Mateo had been his high school classmate-a star student who'd gone to college in Yanos. Word was, he'd landed a job at a foreign firm in June and even married a...