The first step of Operation: Save the Queen Bee was the most difficult, and the most awkward. They had to make contact with the enemy.
They found her the next day, in the one place they knew she would be. The library of her prestigious, private college, a grand, cathedral-like space that smelled of old money and leather-bound books.
They had driven the two hours to her campus, the five of them crammed into Nina's sister's long-suffering sedan. Ren had declined to join them. "My presence would be… counter-productive," he had said. "This is a mission of diplomacy, not intimidation. That is your area of expertise, not mine."
They walked into the library, a small, out-of-place island of public university students in a sea of wealthy, well-dressed co-eds. They found Jessica at a large, oak table in the center of the main reading room, a stack of thick, intimidating-looking law books in front of her.
