Chapter 7 - THE DEED THEY COULD NEVER HAVEI entered the bottling plant without the deed.
The original was safely locked away.
Eleanor didn't actually need the deed.
She needed my signature.
She wanted me to transfer the condo.
Monica placed the papers on the table.
Eleanor explained everything.
My marriage had been planned.
Adrian had been assigned to gain my trust.
He had accessed my professional files.
He had copied my signature.
The Halcyon Tower needed my approval.
And if I refused?
They would destroy me.
My career.
My reputation.
My home.
My life.
Then I understood why Adrian had once asked for my laptop password.
Why he had insisted on knowing every detail of my work.
Why his affection had always seemed most intense whenever I resisted him.
He had been collecting pieces of my identity.
Eleanor ordered me to sign.
I picked up the pen.
Then I noticed the parcel number.
Wrong.
I told Monica the document was legally defective.
She leaned forward.
For one second, she looked away.
I struck her hand with the pen.
Lydia pulled Grace to the floor.
The gun fired.
Glass exploded above us.
Reyes stormed into the building.
Federal agents followed.
Eleanor disappeared through a maintenance tunnel.
But Lydia and Grace survived.
Monica was arrested.
And the gun Eleanor abandoned contained fingerprints connecting it to the murder surrounding my father's death.
The empire was beginning to collapse.
But Eleanor was still free.
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And she had one final weapon.
The Halcyon Tower.
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