Vendetta
Athena Academy Outside Phoenix, Arizona Now"You don't trust me, do you?" Winter Archer curbed the indignation she felt as she locked eyes with the tall, handsome man standing at the office window.
"It's not my place to trust you, Miss Archer," he replied coolly. The reply was tactful. Exactly the way Winter would expect a United States Attorney General to say it.
His name was David Gracelyn. Winter remembered him from the time she'd spent at Athena Academy. She'd been a student then, barely into her teens. He was a few years older than her, but that gap wasn't so pronounced these days as it had been back then. Back then, four years had separated them into different worlds.
In those days David Gracelyn had been a senior at Phoenix, attending a public school at his insistence so he could play competitive baseball. His parents hadn't been fully supportive of his decision because being in the public eye had been risky.
Marion and Adam Gracelyn had been deeply enmeshed in politics. Their work hit society pages as well as front pages of papers, and they were regularly mentioned on the nightly news. Marion had also been the driving force behind Athena Academy.
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