er to a separate wing of the Malone estate. It was a sprawling, be
xt. "Called back to base. Don't wait u
ilent, empty. T
look at you, Eliza. Hit the jackpot." The words were me
," her father, Earl,
iza aside, pressing a thin plastic
es welling up. "A little over fifty thousand dollars. If they hurt
two people's lives of hard work, offered up without a second thought. The flicker of warmt
le. It felt stiff, unused. "I'll be o
, nearly invisible lenses embedded in the smoke detectors and light fixtures. The house was bugged. Every room, that is, except the master bedroom and bathroom. A quick scan confirmed they were
ng, a soft knock
er tray. She looked to be in her late teens, with th
ipped and hostile. She set the tray down on a nea
ovided by the family files that Eliza researched and memorized before the wedding with Nyx's skillset. The file no
ytical. She didn't respond to the hostility
p, her eyes wide with disbelief. "
in your right. A common mistake with a piercing gun. Your sister, Meredith, suffers from mild rhinitis, wh
children, a game that fooled teachers, friends, even their parents sometimes. Their mother had sent her, the sweete
irl from a trailer park, had seen
face evaporated, replaced b
are you?"
. "Tell Meredith that the next time she wan
eat her dinner, as if she hadn't just pe
e rumors. Without another word, Genevieve
meone in the Malone family was looking at Eliza S
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