Total pages in book: 331
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
I refuse to believe it. He’s lying to save his own ass for what he did. “I would have known that.”
Haidyn turns to face me. “Do you remember seeing Charlotte at the cathedral?”
I frown. “What? When Bill had you meet him there? No. She wasn’t with you.” Why would he ask me that?
He tilts his head in thought. “No. When you were younger. Charlotte saw you at the cathedral. It was an offering. You were there with LeAnne.”
“No. I wasn’t.” I glance at Kashton, confused. What are they talking about? “I wasn’t allowed to leave Carnage when I was younger.” I was kept at Carnage until I was given to Dollhouse at nineteen. Then I spent a year in that hellhole.
“Let’s say you’re right…” Ryat speaks to Adam. “If Garrett had another daughter, why would she be with LeAnne?”
Kashton runs a hand through his hair. He looks unsure about whether to believe Adam or not.
“I’m right. It’s how the cops had your DNA on the dead girl,” Adam goes on. “Your identical twin played a part in killing that woman and dumping her in the cemetery that she knew you visited. And the woman who was found but had survived. She was tortured by you…the other you. They wanted her to go to the cops and describe Eve. It was just another base they were covering to make sure you went down for the murders.”
“But Haidyn killed her,” Saint adds. “It put a kink in their plan.”
“What?” I gasp, looking at my brother. “You killed her?” When he doesn’t say anything, I look at my husband, but he’s also ignoring me.
“How long have you known about this?” Haidyn snaps at Adam.
He sighs. “Not long. I started to get suspicious one night after I met up with Kashton. He had just left Blackout and told me that he had seen and spoken to Eve while there. But he couldn’t have. I had just gotten off a call with her, and she was on the opposite side of town about to do a job.”
“What?” I turn to look at Kashton. “You spoke to her?”
“I…” He shrugs. “Uh…I don’t know.” Kashton stumbles over his words. “But I…the three guys from the cathedral were the same three guys I beat up that night at Blackout after I spoke to Eve…uh, your sister. So if she set up the meeting at the cathedral, then it makes sense that she had those guys helping her.”
I run a hand through my hair nervously and take a step back from him.
“Think about it…Isabella is here. She ran Dollhouse. Their leader was taken away by Everett. If Evan hadn’t confirmed to Eve that Haidyn was at Dollhouse, then we wouldn’t have gone and pulled our brother out and brought Isabella here. They knew they had one secret weapon left.” Adam’s green eyes find mine, and I swallow nervously. “You. So they set you up. Tried to get rid of you so she could move in on Kashton, pretending to be his wife, gain access to the inside of Carnage, and then set Isabella free. But when the woman was killed, causing their original plan to fail, they had to change it up. Decided to kill you instead.”
“No,” Kashton barks. “Christopher said that Eve was set up because Evan wanted her…”
“It’s possible,” Adam agrees. “If you were with her twin—Vivian—then he had Eve, and you didn’t know the difference.”
“I would have known the fucking difference,” my husband snaps.
“But—”
“Christ,” Saint hisses.
“And then when Eve came to me, denying we’d slept together, I knew something else was going on, and I had to figure it out,” Adam says.
“So we didn’t have sex?” I ask, hopeful.
He shakes his head. “No. It was your sister. The picture didn’t make sense. How Isabella got it in the first place to give to Haidyn for blackmail. I didn’t have any cameras set up in my hotel room. Your sister had to set it up when I was making us a drink or undressing…I’m not sure. The point is, she put that phone there to record and sent it to Isabella, who then took a picture from it to use against Haidyn. Your sister was following you, and it led her to me. I’m not sure if that was their plan, but it ended up working in Isabella’s favor.”
“Wait.” Haidyn holds up his hand. “What picture?”
Adam faces Haidyn. “When I was in Las Vegas following Ashtyn, Isabella showed you a picture—”
“The girl tied to your bed?” He tilts his head to the side.
“Yes.”
Haidyn looks at me. “That…that was you?”
“No,” Kashton snaps. “Well, her twin.”
My brother rubs the back of his neck. “I didn’t know.”
“How…” I swallow. “How did she know so much about me, but I didn’t know she existed?”
“Your father separated you at a very young age.”