HE MOTHER IN

fore I tear this e

ive. Her mother was inside the Calder estate. After years of unanswered questions, silence and carefully co

caught

cannot go d

rs deciding what I should know. You don

tricted archive. We don't k

not standing here while you

Mireya, listen to him.

ave lied to me enough to lose th

eady moving to

ed. "Where a

t some

here yo

ped, clearl

ot order

like someone who has

re every entrance. Nobody leaves until

key Odette had previously h

going

listair did

case behind the estate's private library. Two security office

stood a heav

panel beside it dis

unlocked it," one o

t door requires two fo

y, someone

key into the old mechanic

ck so

r slowl

veral storage cabinets stood open, and papers covered t

had expected to find

" Mireya

th

le and noticed a photograp

mother holding

ised the chil

was

fingers. On the back was a date from twenty-

rotect my daughter fro

here," Mirey

photograph. His expr

his room as a priva

e leave witho

dn't

ame from behind th

ds immediately

behi

led open a narr

n step

ya f

he woman in her memories, but

the

n stared

seconds, n

whispered, "You shoul

room, but her mot

come

k harder than M

going to greet me af

toward Alistair. "Y

to protect her

hat you a

lease explain why everyone in this family k

r lowered

ted you invo

tity is being used, and people are

at the photograp

id you f

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meone would eventu

ho

ould answer, Dorian

follo

rply. "I told you

r and looked dire

. Ca

xpression chan

ou

much hostility that even

forward. "We

othing left

w why I'

unately

r husband. "How do

jaw. "I met her be

on left Mire

ong be

ral m

never men

levant to our

gave a bi

at you told

er. "You promised this

t Mireya. I never pro

epped bet

nswers. Why did y

n hes

his jacket and remo

she ask

a too

ore her wedding. Her mother's signature ap

eadin

TECTION AND MARR

elt the

t Dorian. "W

he paper, but sh

on

r closed

I can e

rrange my

arranged yo

did you

r looked

riginal trust. He claimed he could protect you

u belie

d to bel

d Dorian. "What did

lence laste

, he an

on about the origina

stared

e was a busine

did lov

need an agreemen

appearance. Your family was involved, and

s voice

e to investiga

real. Whatever the original reas

at the docu

ng, he had already signed an ag

moments in their mar

uddenly grab

nderstand. That agreement was not the most d

do you

ard the computer and

anned copy of a

nature, Odette's signature an

ooked at

our name

said

enlarged th

mporary transfer of Mireya's future admini

a name Mireya had n

n Pi

ooked at her

that lawyer. He isn't

another question, the co

age ap

CTED. ORIGINAL ADMI

line appear

F AUTHORIT

hed toward t

onnec

d, but the scre

tification

ER APP

at the documen

en used to transfer cont

authorised it was sta