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This intrigue had followed me since the day I’d been conceived.
This was a specter that was only just catching up to me.
Senator Alan Davidson spotted with mystery woman.
I managed to make out the article headline.
“This was printed a few weeks before your mom’s death, sweetheart.”
“They’d started seeing each other again?”
He nodded. “Seems like it. Rumors drifted in and out where he was concerned.”
“He had a reputation? I never knew that.”
But, hell, neither had I seen this headline, nor had I known that my mother was dating a presidential candidate.
Did I walk around with my head in the clouds?
Or was the flour causing problems with my eyes?
He shrugged. “You’re not exactly into politics, and I get the feeling that shit was covered up.”
“By whom?”
Finn hesitated. “I don’t know for sure, but I think us.”
“The Five Points?”
He nodded. “Senior never asked me to do anything like that, and I know Junior wasn’t asked either—”
“Conor.”
“Yeah, it could be him.”
“Who was he with?”
“Did your mom date?”
“I-I guess. Toward the end not so much. We were busy with the tearoom but yeah, I guess… she dated more than I did.”
“This is the only time I remember a picture coming out—what if they were seeing each other all along?”
“Why wouldn’t she tell me they were together, though?” I whispered on a broken sob.
“I don’t know, baby. I can’t answer that.”
He hugged me tighter to him and I let him. I let him because I needed him. It was shameful but I needed him so fucking badly.
“His wife was there the day your mom died, sweetheart. That can’t be a coincidence, can it? And Conor told me that she’s the one who confirmed Senior and your mom were together.”
I reached up and rubbed at my temple. “Let me get this straight, you’re trying to tell me two different sets of people wanted my mom dead, for two entirely different reasons?”
“It depends on whether Elizabeth Davidson is a part of the ECD.”
“Is she?”
“I don’t know. It would make a crazy kind of sense if she were, but Michael says she isn’t.”
