#Chapter 73

Third POV

Past events run through her head like a bullet train along a rail line. She remembers them all. Nonfiction. Because they all happened the way she planned. Coupled with the information in the letter in her hands, Cathy cannot be mistaken.

Ellie is really her biggest enemy.

She never saw the signs, never got too suspicious of the fact that there might be something going on between the benefactor and the beneficiary.

So he cares about her. Really does. But why pretend? Why put on a facade that she is just his adopted daughter when she's obviously more than that?

Or does he know about the sudden deaths that always befall his chosen mates and decide to protect Ellie by telling a public lie because he really cares about her?

Cathy shakes her head and slowly sits down on the couch. She rereads the part where the letter says that Ellie has been investigating the real cause of her parents' death for the past two years.

Markus and Rebecca Roze.

A wicked smile breaks her face apart as