IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
"And in exchange, I have spent five years protecting secrets of hers that go considerably further than financial restructuring."
I went very still. "What secrets."
My mother opened her mouth to answer, and that was the exact moment the study door opened without a knock, and Madeline Crawford walked in, her face pale, a folder clutched in one hand, her eyes moving from me to my mother and back again with an expression I had never seen on her before.
Behind her, the housekeeper stood in the hallway, looking as though she had tried and failed to stop her.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," Madeline said, though her voice carried no apology at all. "But I think you should