In the quiet Seattle suburb, he sat in the back of the car, staring at the house across the street. His past, present and future stolen away by Stavros Konstantinou. But when she got silent, when she faked the smiles and sought to hide the light that flared in her eyes at the sight of someone else’s baby, he understood he’d wounded her mortally. When she got loud, when they fought, they were all right. Petra’s silence scared him like nothing else. He’d disappointed her with that decision, driving her to silence. For the family they could have had, if he hadn’t insisted on his world being too dangerous for a child. She would embrace the FBI agent Levi loved, and she’d want Daniel to reach out to family. They made up, rebuilt their life and family, and were now remarried. But just as Daniel was about to slip off that leash, Levi’s husband came back into his life.

They shattered his brother’s life, and when Daniel found out, he’d wanted blood. A man Levi loved and married under false pretenses, until the day he found out the truth. If he was as involved in it as Daniel and Antonio. The FBI found out about Levi any way, and they launched a campaign to find out if he knew about the cartel business. No one knew about Levi except for the three of them. She begged them to keep their baby brother safe by staying away. In her shoes, Daniel would likely have done the same. She’d watched her husband groom their two eldest sons, attempting to pit them against each other in a bid to turn them into younger versions of himself. Growing up as Eduardo’s son, he understood his mother’s choice.

So she’d spent most of her pregnancy in the States with a relative and gave her third child up for adoption. She’d hidden her pregnancy from her husband because she didn’t want Eduardo Nieto’s influence to corrupt yet another child. At twenty-one, his mother sat both Daniel and Antonio down and confessed that they had another brother. Once a month, Daniel made a trip to Seattle, to see the little brother nobody was supposed to know existed.

Call the coroner by avril ashton