Chapter 10

Cassie didn't recognize Asher, nor did she realize she had already exposed herself. After she left, Asher called his assistant, Matthew Campbell, in. "Find out where she's staying and who she's living with." Matthew nodded and was about to leave when Asher stopped him again. "About that girl… Are there still no leads?" When Asher was nine, he had been framed by his family's enemies and abducted by traffickers, who took him to a remote mountain village. The mountains stretched for hundreds of miles, an endless, impenetrable barrier. No matter how he tried, he couldn't escape. Just when he thought he would spend the rest of his life wasting away in that place, a girl named Ingrid Charter had saved him. She led him through a hidden path he had never seen before and shoved a few rock-hard breads into his hands. "Keep running this way. You'll be out by tomorrow afternoon." Asher grabbed her hand. "Come with me. If they find out you helped me escape, they'll kill you." Ingrid shook h