ting on this very property before it fell into ruin. It was his family's o

emple, "will be the nursery. With a big

protect me from the world, that he and I were a team, that Haylee'

," he'd whispered. "You ma

along the way, twisted by Haylee' s constant, insidious poison. He wasn't stron

s was now the man encouraging hi

a strange clarity cut through it. I

d the torn lobe of my ear. The earring

lf, a prayer to a man I hadn't

the ground, trying to

seen the movement

stepping closer. "Still whis

had planted was no

t. "Who is the man you were

only weapon. It

he shift in his obsess

talking to someone on that earring,"

"Only a really rich guy could do