Chapter 43: Haley

Monday. Washington, DC.

HALEY GLANCED AT KONSTANTIN, but he merely stared straight ahead. Thanks to the earbuds, she'd heard his half of the conversation and most of what his father had said.

She couldn't begin to imagine this complicated relationship or how it affected him.

Haley was a daddy's girl. She'd grown up wanting to be just like him, much to the confusion of her mother. Haley talked to her mother maybe once a week. At least every other week. But her dad? They talked all the time. Usually once a day at breakfast, sometimes more. If she ever needed anything, her parents would be there. Not to mention her brothers and sister. Then there were the other girls and her Aegis Group family. Her life was full.

Konstantin didn't have any of that.

"I take it that didn't go as well as you'd hoped?" she asked, once more venturing into an attempt at conversation.

"Do you think she's right?" He continued staring out the window.

"Right about what?"

"That he set this all in