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I sigh. “I had a visitor earlier today.”
“An unwelcome one, I take it.”
“Our stepmother.”
His sharp intake of breath reveals his feelings on that, and he says darkly,“Interesting. I take it she wants her money back.”
He says with interest.“What was her trump card?”
“Murder charges. One for me concerning Senator Billings and one against her sister if she didn’t return with her.”
“She’s still there?”
“She’s going nowhere.”
I hate his sigh of exasperation and hate the words from his lips even more as he says roughly,“She’s not Diana.”
“You’re fucking right about that. Flora is nothing like her damaged sister and she’s going nowhere.”
“What murder charge have they got on her?”
I fill him in, and he growls,“Fucking bitch. Using her own sister. How low can she go?”
He says quickly,“What are your thoughts on Eliza?”
“In what respect?”
“The reason she ran.”
Despite my own reservations, I snarl, “That she wanted her freedom. Didn’t like being told what to do; was a spoiled brat.”
“So, what our father and Diana told you.”
His words silence me and as I think about it and knowing what they are capable of, my world collapses under the weight of responsibility.
“You think they did something to her?”
“I do.”
Leo hisses,“It’s probable that our sister died running from them. There’s also the explosion that killed them both. What do you know about that?”
“That it worked.”
The silence stretches between us as we contemplate something that never occurred to us and Leo snarls,“I’ll do some digging. If we are going to win against them, we need to line up our soldiers. The money was the first step. Now we need to discover their weakness.”
“Have you heard from Matteo? He was already searching for Mario’s weakness.”
“He’s working on it as we speak.”
“And the will. Have you managed to get a copy?”
There’s a brief silence before he says abruptly,“I’m working on it. Leave it with us, you have the money and her sister and it’s up to us to play our part too. Stay strong and inform me of anything that comes up.”
“Will do.”
He hesitates and for some reason I am reluctant to end the call and he says with a slight edge to his voice,“Dom, I…”
“I know.”
