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Ahed heavily “We flew into Carrasco When we arrived in Montevideo, we probably flew over the house where my son is” She felt oddly disconnected, likely a result of the eed behind She wondered if the ride was ever going to end

Quint held her around the waist as they left the house and fled to the car “It’s okay It’s over We’re finally going to get Hampton”

Aranted, but she didn’t say as s

Chapter Thirty Seven

AMARA AND QUINT WAITED IN the car outside Isabela’s home in Paso de Carrasco Gabriela had described her cousin as a kind woman, but Gabriela worried that she would break under the pressure of trying to hide her eers And so Gabriela had insisted it would be better if they stayed outside Aht the deep desire to break into the house and snatch Hampton

All Quint could do was hold her hand firmly in his Since they’d arrived at Isabela’s house, an ih her Her cal moment that the front door remained closed

She kept seeing flashes of the ugly scene on the cliff No matter how badly Frederik had treated her, or what terrible things he’d done, she quaked at thehi cinders rising into the air

Nothing could take away the iined herself in Gabriela’s place,her son rather than her brother

“Quint … at the cliff … it was so ghastly All of it I don’t kno …”

He squeezed her hand reassuringly “He was a monster, but I know you cared for hiht he was, I can’t i like that”

She passed a hand over her thick hair “I hated him I really did I hated hied otten worse I’ll never forgive hi like that Even up to the last uess I never really knew hiht’ve been all right if I had corrected soossip”

“No You heard Gabriela and her father Frederik was ill And dangerous, and off his ht Let theuilt You and I aren’t part of that”

“You’re right And then there’s all that money he threay into the bonfire, Quint I can’t wrap my head around it”

“He was delusional, Aone The accounts are still there and I can still access them”

“Seriously?”