Chapter 61

"It's owner killed my mother."

That pendant still hung over the mirror while I continued to play the deadly version of Spot the Difference and kept on failing. I couldn't lie to myself; this was Dad's pendant.

It couldn't be a coincidence that it appeared in the hands of Adler.

My lips moved, but the voice refused to form; I felt the warm tears creep to my lids as I swallowed.

I thought... I thought I had finally found peace and protection, but all this while, I was not even close to being safe. Instead, In my ignorance, I had settled with danger, danced with it, and let it hold my hand.

I was the daughter of the man who made Adler the monster he had become, and he didn't know. If he did...

Oh God!

I wanted to run, flee the room and even the manor. The death I would meet outside this place would be more lenient than what I'd go through if he found me out.

Despite the cardigan, I trembled, and my damn eyes began to fill again; gosh, I wanted t