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I bent down, picking it up, and saw a nunize

“Why roaned and clicked the accept button I hated cell phones It hy I didn’t bother having one “Hello” I placed the phone against my ear and waited

No sound Nothing at first

“Hello, daughter,” Alexander said

I’d been warned he’d try to be in touch, but I figured it would be in Gideon’s house, not while I visited my best friend The same friend he’d murdered, which was the reason why I visited

“Have we forgotten our manners?” he asked

As I gritted oing to let hiet to me “Who are you?” I asked

He tutted “Sian, don’t disappoint me like you have so many times before You knoho I am”

“I know you’re a wanted cri you” I held the set of keys within ivenhim in?

I hoped so I wanted to see him pay for what he did

“You don’t knohat you’re fucking talking about” He all but snarled at me

Thish with that only so you could put it out for the world to see?” I asked

“I see you’ve grown a backbone I wonder if you’ll still have it when I kill your boys”

I laughed even as fear raced down my spine I didn’t want anyone to hurt them They were the only real faoing to be able to accomplish that? They knoho you are They knohat you’ve done”

“They will all pay”

“For what? For your sins? The only person who is going to pay is you” I glanced around at the houses, wondering if he could see me I wasn’t sure and to be honest, I didn’t care “You know, I figured it out about Chloe Why you used her She was easy cash You’re a man who has always lived outside of hiswith the Saintly Devils, and then, you decided to take their selected from them Did you have a crush on Mom, or did you just want to feel the kind of power you’d never had before? To take it away from the real men?”