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Ethan continued “That, however, would mean I’d have to start fro in his power to ensure ues were incarcerated”

“You orking with them,” I hissed out “All of them?”

“Not Qadir and Nik,” he said “I recognized fro they’d be impossible to sway, like Dane But that was okay I didn’t need them I had the other five—it’s avote, never had to risk the siance lies”

“You just reaped all the benefit,” Dane said in disgust

“I understand you’re upset,” Ethan told hio behind your back, Dane, but once you got your feet under you at Harvard I could see I wasn’t going to win you over to ht any more than I did your father”

“So you killed my parents”

“Yes”

“And you think you’re going to kill my son?”

“That depends on you and your wife”

I sed down a lump of emotion—and horror

I kne all of this had started

I kneould end

“You want 10,000 Lux,” I said

“Sign it over and your son lives So do the two of you”

My blood turned to ice “And Kyle and Rosa?” I didn’t even want to think of A lifeless on my kitchen floor, and that possibility nearly crippled me