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It’d been orchestrated from birth until this very second

I drifted in and out of sleep while Dane scoured onized, analyzed, internalized I couldn’t even begin to fathoh his syste over every little tidbit unearthed

I had known froe of five what my mother was all about and what my home life would be, how the interactions would play out, and what to expect As hostile as the environment had been because of her, at least it was predictable

Even as shitty as one to Maleficent and he hadn’t been able to continue to compete professionally because of his shoulder injuries and everything in our life had turned dark and dise amount of certainty

That certainty had all been centered around the fact that ry bitch There’d not once been any proof otherwise, and she hadn’t put any effort into correcting the ie or our opinion of her over the years, the decades If anything, she’d found creative ways to exe

Unfortunately for Dane, he’d never had a de the society he’d believed in Vale Hilliard and Wayne Horton had co hiainstabout

Chances were very good his father hadn’t crossed to the dark side along with Ethan or anyone else For theexactly as Dane had done when he’d discovered things had gone horrifically wrong—finding a way out

Yet Dane had no one to confront, no one to question If there’d been a generation of Baxsince dead and buried Dane couldn’t consult the up Ethan and ask hiht?

Not blatantly at any rate Not without repercussions ere not at all prepared to deal with at the moment, as we acclimated to this new scenario This new peril

To that point, I grew infinitely agitated as we showered and got around the nextup all of the docuether

I didn’t like being away fro It made me even more nervous since Dane and I had encountered additional sinister doings Dane spoke with Amano and assured me all ell back home, but I’d never fully accept that until ere in Sedona andaround Philly, we flew home

Dane was abnorular basis He was a brooder by nature I could easily amend that and consider hiht, as usual I didn’t interrupt I couldn’t offer anything to tip the scales for hiazines while hewe’d discovered, his jaw and his fists clenching from time to time

Dis me unsettled

The one on between 1978 and 1983, what the Bax family’s involvement ith the society, and what had truly happened to his parents were confounding enough But one other issue reared its ugly head in my mind

If Ethan discovered we’d pieced the puzzle together, what then?