Chapter 58

XANDER.

It was almost dinner time, and I remained seated in my chair inside my office at the training building, facing the window adjacent to the security building entrance. I’d been watching this view for many hours already, waiting to see if Maddox would visit Nadine so I could go there as well.

I needed to sort out a lot of paperwork, but I couldn’t concentrate. All I could think of was my conversation with Carlotta earlier.

**FLASHBACK TO A FEW HOURS AGO.

After lunch, I headed to the training building to start working on the paperwork that I’d been ignoring for the past couple of days. I used it as an excuse to get away from Maddox while thinking of a diversion that I needed to do tomorrow night to make sure Nadine would be safe.

I was not even in my office for ten minutes when a knock came through the door.

Carlotta. She followed me here as she ate lunch with us at the packhouse.

“Come in,” I told her as I closed the folder that I was holding and secured all the documents on my