Adelle stood frozen, trembling all over.

How did Dan know about what happened with Mervin Burton? She'd always been so careful-how could Dan have found out?

He...

She watched Dan's back as he headed up the stairs. He didn't even pause or look

her way.

As he walked, Dan called out, "Mervin Burton is an outsider too, isn't he?"

"So it's fine for you to bring in outside help to give your Finch the upper hand, but when it comes to me, suddenly everything has to be handled 'in the family'? Since when is that fair?"

In the name of "handling things in the family"-now she wanted to close the doors? How convenient.

But back when she was the one opening the doors and inviting outsiders in, did she ever think about what kind of disaster it could bring down on Black Gate?

Adelle felt like her chest was caving in. "Is that why you brought Lacey back?" Lacey...

her-by the

been searching for Lacey all these years too...

many people she sent out, no one ever found Lacey. Some of them never even

back, it had to be Dan, pulling strings


they did, it was probably impossible to keep secrets from him. Realizing just how deep his scheming went, Adelle's

stopped and glanced over his

eyes met midair, and she saw a ruthless coldness in Dan's gaze-one that reminded her of how his mother had

felt her

suddenly, "You and Derek-you met on a

Adelle said nothing.

there? You guys got caught in a landslide. He got knocked out by a falling rock, and you

that day, Adelle's fists clenched. "What are

know, you spent a month in the hospital afterward. Broken

Adelle stayed silent.

had a fracture, how

Derek.

Dan called


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