THE EVIDENCE (Damien's POV) Eleanor was coming down the stairs. I could hear her footsteps getting closer. Panic surged through me. I was trapped down here. If she found me in this room, with the safe open, she would know what I was doing. I turned back to the safe, pulled the door open fully. Inside was a book, leather bound. I grabbed it, pulled it out. The cover had no title. Just the Blackwood family crest embossed in gold. I opened it. The pages were filled with Eleanor's handwriting. Dates, names, amounts of money and details of transactions. This was Eleanor's record of everything. Every crime, every illegal deal, every person she had destroyed. It was all here in her own handwriting. The footsteps were closer now. At the bottom of the stairs. I flipped through the pages frantically. Looking for what I was here for. I found entries about business deals that went wrong, about politicians who had been bribed, about competitors who had been eliminated. And then I found
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