“Griffin, I don’t know if you believe in karma or not, but I am that force in the world. I don’t have to live or play by the rules everyone else does…whichever one of us, my brothers or I, who ends up killing the people who hurt you…will take great pleasure in it. I’m not expecting you to completely trust strangers, and we don’t want to invade your space. But you can trust them. I trust them, with my life. With my children’s lives.” Her face, stoic, then unreadable, offered him a small smile just after and then she glanced at Zach. “I need both of you on the same page and, really there…we won’t be lying to each other during this…” She glanced at them both cautiously.