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Chapter 5 The Secret My Brother Buried
birthday cards, on school notes, on the little messages Adrian used to leave beside my breakfa
ded like it came from a long w
n't k
lie t
efully. "The original was delivered to my office anon
nd
t says it is consisten
d gone numb.
kno
nd you a letter that
t I am tryin
worked himself half to death to keep me in school. When I was frightened he had stayed awake beside me, and when I cried he had promised n
"My brother would
t me that letter. Someone shut down my security system. Someone put a death co
hat frightened me almost as much as the
our family." His gaze held mine. "And I
ture, the payment, the midnight deadline.
you will have to be cl
ead I nearly smiled, and caught m
arkably difficult
r asked
He leaned forward, hands flat on the desk. "Tell me something. Did your father ever
N
hi
had overheard through a wall between my parents. And then, from underneath all of it, a small silver key. He had put it in my hand on my sixteenth birthday, three months b
Dante was watching
on changed so sharply that I knew I had sa
w. It vanish
else know
uneral, standing at my elbow while I tore throu
ey may open a safe deposit box your father kept under a fals
's in
He turned back. "Your father's solicitor. One of his former
was
recognised him at once. He had stood beside Adrian at my father's funeral and taken my hand in both of his. I co
said. "One of the last men
vibrate across the desk, and Adrian's name glowed on the
ria
"Isabella, do exactly wh
at Dant
e wit
es
hen get away
hy
ed your death. I have the original
ge on the desk. "But I al
has a second instruction on it,
nte had gone co
ruction?"
ly order you killed. He told the killer to ma
hing that would prove my brother wrong. Instead, very slowly, he reached beneath his
her is in
nshot followed it. And from the phone
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