Nate knew he’d done everything possible to make this work. Well, logically he knew that. But in the back of his mind, he hated that he couldn’t guarantee all of them would come out of this unscathed. He ended the call with Kade. One of many calls Nate had made over the past hour since Darcy and he had arrived at the ranch. More would no doubt have to be made. “Well?” Darcy asked the moment he hung up. She was in the doorway of his office, her hands bracketed on the door frame. All the lights in the house were off—that was part of their plan, to lure Ramirez with a fake power outage—but Nate didn’t need to see her face to know she was worried and on edge. He could hear it in her voice. In that one word. In the air zinging around them. The storm brewing outside only added to the menacing feel. “The children are fine,” he assured her. “They’re all tucked in for the night at the safe house.” Her breathing was way too fast, and he thought he could even hear her heartbeat.
