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Alina read the two messages three times before she lowered the phone."What is it?" Adrian asked. He was already half out of his chair.She could have told him. The instruction sat in her chest like a stone, *tell no one, not even Adrian*, and she understood exactly why it had been written that way. Whoever sent it knew who she trusted, and wanted that trust broken before the night began.She slid the phone across the table instead.Adrian read it. Ms. Fontaine read it over his shoulder. Renee read it last, and she did not bother hiding her reaction."No," Renee said."I haven't said anything.""You were about to." Renee set the phone down very carefully. "It's a lure. Someone cut Daniel's video off mid-sentence and sent you here within the hour. The stables behind the estate, alone, at night. It reads like a script.""Then why send the video at all?" Alina asked. "If they wanted me at the stables, a threat would have been enough. Instead someone sent proof that Daniel was afraid."Ad

Alina looked at the screen, at the pinned hair and the narrow back, and made herself breathe slowly. Twenty minutes. Foster had said it twice, and people who say a number twice are usually counting. "You're lying about the time," Alina said. "If you needed me here for twenty minutes, you wouldn't have wasted five of them talking." Foster's smile flickered. "I'm fond of conversation." "No. You're waiting for something." Alina kept her hands where they were, one resting on the curve of her stomach, which felt like the only honest gesture she had left. "A call. A confirmation. Someone has to tell you it's finished." For the first time, Foster did not answer at once. Behind her, Harris had slid down the stall wall until he sat in the straw, his knees drawn up. He was staring at the phone in Foster's hand with an expression Alina could not read. It looked less like fear than like arithmetic. "Mrs. Blackwood," he said hoarsely. "Be quiet, Harris," Foster said. "The woman on

Alina did not move from the doorway.Edmund Blackwood watched her with the mild patience of a man who had all the time in the world. He was thinner than his portraits, his hair gone white, but the eyes were the same: pale, level, and faintly amused. Daniel stood beside the open safe with his back half turned, one hand pressed flat against the steel door as if it were the only thing holding him upright."You are supposed to be dead," Adrian said."Officially, Mr. Lawson, I am." Edmund inclined his head. "A yacht, a storm, a closed casket. It was a very tidy arrangement. Death is the most efficient way to leave a company you no longer wish to answer for.""Margaret told everyone she was a widow," Alina said."Margaret was a widow. She simply was not told the whole truth." He smiled thinly. "Some marriages survive on what is left unsaid."Daniel finally turned. His face was gray, his eyes red-rimmed. He looked at Alina, and she saw no calculation in it, only a raw, stripped exhaustion sh

Nobody in the study spoke.The word hung in the red-tinged air like something fragile that might break if anyone breathed too hard. Alina lay across Daniel's old desk, her skirt soaked, her hair stuck to her temples, and stared at Dr. Carter."Twins," she repeated."I heard the second heartbeat three weeks ago," Dr. Carter said, snapping her gloves tight. "It was faint, overlapped by the first. I wanted a proper scan before telling you. I'm sorry it comes like this."A laugh escaped Alina, raw and cracked. "Of course. Of course it does."Adrian had not let go of her hand. His face was colorless, but his voice, when it came, was steady. "What do you need?""Clean cloths, hot water if the kitchen has any, and everyone out who is not essential." Dr. Carter glanced at the wall of armed men. "That includes the ones with guns."Renee gave a short nod. "Salvatore's men take Edmund and the guards outside. Two stay at the door. Nobody enters without my word."Edmund had said nothing since the