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“I love you, Sebastian.”
Finally
“Are you my father?”
“Yes,” Richard said without preamble. “I’ve had DNA tests done and our match was conclusive. I’m your father.”
That's the good news
“Was Oscar your son?”
“In every way except blood.”
“No. Oscar was not Graeme’s. He was Reginald Huntley’s child.”
“Catherine’s father,”
“No, she didn’t sleep with her father … he raped her. For years. She was the victim of his assault night after night from when she was about ten. When she got pregnant, she found the strength to escape him. She went for the only people powerful enough to take on Huntley.”
“She brought you back here for a reason, Riley. If it’s to ensure that we can vote in this upcoming meeting, then that means she is going to vote Huntley into Delta.”
The real reason she brought Riley back. For her to have the vote to bring her brother's company in
Dante working for Catherine. Katelyn’s murder. Catherine and her brother. Catherine and her father. Richard’s confession about Oscar.
I would be pacing too with that knowledge
“The whole time. You’ve been spying on me for Catherine the entire time we’ve known each other?”
Dante was working for Catherine the whole time of their friendship. My heart breaks for Riley. He was her family
“She threatened someone you love. I’m starting to understand the way Delta works, now. When money isn’t enough of an incentive, threaten to kill people.”
“Did you ... did Catherine kill my parents?”
Dante knew Catherine killed Rileys parents
“There are two things I need you to remember, Butterfly,” he said softly. “One: Catherine is going to pay for what she has done. In every way possible, she will regret the day she hurt you.”
“Two: your parents loved you very much. I didn’t even have to meet them to know this, because you are so fucking lovable. But,
and I don’t say this to take away from them .... you have so much love and family in your world still. I fucking love you. An unconditional sort of love. It doesn’t matter how you fuck up, Riles, you’ll always have me. I’m your family.”
The sort of fury that had me wanting to start a goddamn war for her, to wipe out any fucker who’d ever dared hurt her.
Sebastian, Beck, is so in love with Riley
Dante
“Catherine needs the vote to go her way,” he said. “Check your board members. She thinks she has the votes to get Huntley in, and if that happens, they’re going to kill you all.”
girl in my class … she’d said her father was a high-powered lawyer in New York City. Maybe she was my answer, but how could I tell if he could be trusted?
Help take down delta
Dante: Riley is in danger. Stay put for more instructions. This is a life and death situation. Trust me.
Tried to warn Rileys dad about the danger the day of crashed
Dante: How could you? How could you kill her parents? They were all she had in this world. You’ve destroyed her. You’ve destroyed your daughter.
I shook my head. “That’s what they told me, but I was there. I might have blocked out what happened at first, but … I remember now. I heard her voice and her gasp. Someone got to her just after we crashed. Probably my dad too. They were murdered.”
Her parents were alive after the crash
Four blood red roses, two pure white ones, and a black rose dead center. A splash of red lower down caught my eyes, and as I leaned closer to peer through the glass vase, a gasp left my lips. The roses were covered in thorns, and each of the thorns was dripping red.
Who left the roses
Eddy had been with her grandparents in Texas since the Dante thing, and even though she complained, I secretly thought she was happy to get away from all the Dante drama.
For her safety
Keeping my friends safe was the top of my list, and I truly believed the only way to do that was to ensure that all of Delta’s board was gone.
A single black rose was tucked into the wipers. I fumbled with my phone again, raising it so there was a very low light across the car. My hands trembled at the red running in lines down from the thorns. Carl’s blood. I knew it was Carl’s blood, just like I knew the killer was leaving me a message. You’re next.
Stalker
She was avoiding the guys for some reason ... I made a mental note to corner her later and find out why.
Why Eddy
maybe your driver had nothing to do with your company at all. Dad seemed to indicate that it might be something related to you.”
“The black rose triggered in our database as being linked to an open investigation,” Shephard explained. “The specific variety is rare, called Osiria. It’s native to a remote region of Turkey, so not something readily available at florists. We’re worried that this links you to another victim. We’ve brought uniformed officers with us because until we can verify more information, we think it best you keep a police guard around the clock.”
These roses are involved in an open murder investigation. A young oil family heiress in Texas was recently stabbed to death in her bed. The only clue left was a black Osiria rose drenched in her blood.”
he chased her into the lunchroom, eventually catching her around the waist and tickling her until she apologized. It was such a cute normal moment, I could almost see the two of them as a couple.
Eddy and Evan?
On the screen Beck flipped me over, pressing me into the couch as my legs circled his waist and—
Stalker hide a camera in her apartment
straightened then too. Osiria killer? We hadn’t told him that. “You knew,” I said breathlessly, fury simmering in my gut. “You knew and you were still willing to let Dante pay for a crime he didn’t commit.”
He knew about the stalker/killer. Was doing a favor for the deitch
So callous. No thoughts about others being killed by this same person. Or about bringing his daughter’s killer to justice. He’d rather protect the Huntley name and not drag it through the mud any more than it already was.
What a douche! More worried about his business and the vote then his own daughter's murder.
Oscar’s body.”
“Maybe Catherine and Graeme dug it up to make sure no one ever discovered that Oscar was the product of an incestuous relationship.”
The good looking, dark skinned man—James? Johnson!—smiled a disturbingly charming smile at me, shaking his head like I was a damn moron.
The offier at the desk
Beck finally spoke up, his voice graveled and deeper than I’d ever heard. “He’s lying. The Johnson I knew was not sloppy like this. Multiple times tonight he left a bread trail to him. Which leads me to only one conclusion. He wanted to be caught. This is his swan song. Go out with a bang taking down the biggest heiress in the world.”
Beck stepped the two steps back to me, stopping right in front of me. “You are my life, Riley. My fucking life, heart, and soul.” His hand slammed against his chest. “Without you, there is no fucking me, so yes, he almost killed me.”
you want Dante in your life, then I won’t stand in your way. But I will stand at your back and make sure that fucker doesn’t put a knife in it again.”
Sebastian will let Dante in Rileys life if she wants.
“Your friend from elementary school, Scarlett … she didn’t just move away in the fourth grade.”
“Her entire family was killed in an explosion. Final ruling was a faulty electrical board that caught fire and blew the car up. But I knew it was Catherine.”
“Her parents worked for Catherine,” Dante whispered, “and they used their daughter to keep track of you. But when they got scared and ran, Catherine had them killed.”
Catherine had reduced me to this. To a shell of the former person I was. A shell of the fucking person I could have been.
“Who the fuck am I?” I asked Beck, hating the broken in my voice. “Catherine has been controlling me since birth. Nothing was real. I’m not even sure my mom and dad were real at this point.”
Did Catherine finally break Riiley?
“The past doesn’t fucking matter, because after this vote, you’ll never have to worry about Catherine again. She’s going to pay. She’s going to have everything she loves and desires in this world stripped from her. I will make sure of that.”
Sebastian promise to Riley. I love this guy
“Catherine got to her,” he said simply. “She didn’t want me distracted, and she knew Hailey meant something to me, so she paid her off. It was a not very subtle warning to me that she owned me. My life. Every single part of it, and if I ever strayed, she would destroy my world.”
Catherine was the one responsible for Oscar’s death. The look in her eyes as she grinned at me was so cold, so ruthless, so totally removed from sanity...
she had zero issues murdering her children to get ahead in life.
