Chapter 138: Carla

Carla focused on keeping her breathing slow. Everything else would fall in line. She wouldn't let them rattle her.

Grant was a hostile partner. She would not yield ground to him because that would only make him devalue her input. He wasn't reasonable.

"I think it would be best if we sat," Melody said and braced her hands on the table.

"Start when how and when you made contact with the kidnapper." Grant made no move toward the table.

"Thank you, Melody, but I'll stand." Carla never took her eyes off Grant. "I reached out to Farez last night when you refused to listen to my evaluation of the situation. Your brute force approach didn't work. It was time to try something else."

"And you thought-what? You could do this job better than us?"

Carla made herself take a deep breath. Grant was hostile. Thanks to Vaughn, she understood the tension. Grant wanted to do their job to the best of his ability, and he saw her as thwarting that. No one wanted to see anyone kidnapped out from u