He came back to save a mill. He found a daughter with his hands.Three years ago, Roman Vance left the only person who ever got past his guard. He told himself it was mercy. A Vance shouldn't bond — he'd watched what that hook did to his mother, watched a good woman go hollow inside a marriage she couldn't walk out of. So he gave a speech in the dark and drove two hundred miles away and never once asked what Marin wanted.Marin Okafor found out six weeks later, alone, on a ga...