Chapter 6 - Anton Kidnapped Elena and Demanded the Locket, but Lena Knew a Secret Her Mother Had Hidden in Plain SightElena disappeared.
A note.
Locket for Elena.
I refused.
Lena stood beside me.
“He knows.”
“What?”
“Mommy didn't hide the key inside the locket.”
“What did she hide?”
Lena pointed at Bear.
His collar.
I looked.
A metal tag.
I twisted it.
Inside was a tiny key.
The key opened a safe at my old family bank.
We went.
Inside:
A ledger.
Photographs.
Contracts.
And Sofia's final letter.
Adrian,
If Lena finds you, trust her.
The locket is not the key.
The key is the dog.
I laughed.
Bear had been protecting her because Gabriel trained him to.
The tag held the real key.
The ledger contained the names of every Black Circle member.
Including Anton.
It also contained a location.
An abandoned courthouse.
We went.
Elena was there.
Anton was waiting.
He wanted the ledger.
I gave him a fake.
Lena held the real one.
We rescued Elena.
Anton escaped.
Again.
But now we knew his endgame.
He wanted to become head of the Black Circle.
To do it, he needed Lena alive.
Not dead.
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It meant he couldn't simply kill her.
He needed her to sign.
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