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The first thing I noticed about Italy was how beautiful it looked even when I was terrified.The road leading toward Villa Bellini curved through hills covered with olive trees and tall cypress trees, the late afternoon sunlight spilling gold across the landscape. Everything looked peaceful. Almost too peaceful for a place where someone had demanded that I come alone with a box containing evidence that could expose one of the most powerful men in my life.I sat beside Ethan in the back of the car, the blue box resting on my lap.He had wanted me to leave it behind.I had refused.“You're holding that thing like someone is going to snatch it from you,” Ethan said quietly.I looked down at my hands. He wasn't wrong. My fingers were wrapped tightly around the edges of the box.“Someone already tried to take everything from me once.”His expression changed.“I know.”There was something about the way he said it that made me look at him.Ethan had barely spoken since we left the airport. H

The name on the recorder stayed on the screen long after the recording ended.ELENA REED.I kept staring at it, almost expecting the letters to rearrange themselves into something that made more sense.They didn't.My mother had left us a recording that mentioned Jonathan Reed's death, Victor, and someone he had been protecting. Then, as if that wasn't enough, the recorder had revealed that another message was scheduled for the following morning.From Elena.The same woman who had disappeared twenty years ago.The same woman who had apparently been with Amelia three months ago.And the same woman who was now somewhere in Naples.Ethan was the first to move.“Everyone back into the vehicle.”His voice was calm, but I knew him well enough now to recognize the tension beneath it.I picked up the photograph of Elena and Amelia.“Wait.”He looked at me.I turned it over again.SHE TRUSTS HER.Those four words had been written beneath the photograph.“Why would Elena leave this for us?”Gab