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“The autopsy report given to my parents was the one on record,” I added.
“When my father refused to give me names, I went to Kincaid,” Saxton went on.
“Why wouldn’t your father give you names?” Stone asked.
“Because he didn’t trust the person on the phone enough to challenge it,” Saxton answered. “My father would be accusing some very powerful men of covering up Apollo Black’s death, and he couldn’t do that without absolute proof.”
“So, after Saxton told me everything, that’s when it started.”
“What started?” Sutton asked.
“My…obsession, I suppose,” I answered. “It didn’t matter that I was only fifteen and no one believed me. My life’s mission was no longer about my future. It became about finding justice for my brother. No matter what, I was going to find out what happened to my brother. More importantly, I was going to make them pay.”
“What’d you do?” Rylee asked quietly, enthralled with my tale.
“Saxton and I started spending all our free time researching everything there was about The Order,” I told her. “We went through our fathers’ studies and phones and anything we thought would have some answers.”
“It’s when we also devised the plan to stop being friends in public,” Saxton added. “By then, we already knew that I’d be initiated, so that’s when we planned on me selecting Kincaid to get her inside.”
“It was sheer coincidence that the same initiating class that Apollo belonged to would be the same class that would initiate Saxton’s class.”
“So…for eight years, you’ve been…planning The Order’s downfall?” Hastings asked. “Is that what this is?”
I looked over at Fox when I answered. “Yes.”
His face was giving nothing away, but those hazel eyes of his were alive with too many emotions to capture even one. Of course, I did just drop the bomb that I intended to destroy the organization that was going to help them all achieve their dreams, so I could see how he’d be battling more than one emotion right now.
After a few uncomfortable seconds, and not caring that we had an audience, Fox asked, “Is that why you left me?”
“Yes,” I answered honestly.
Finally, the truth was out.
