![]() ![]() ![]() I hoped Archie was smart enough to have destroyed the tape before Edythe could watch. I was trying to remember how to use my voice so that I could stop him if he tried to say anything about the rest of it. I was glad he didn’t seem to mention anything else about the tape-the focus was all on his past. Archie was searching right there on his laptop, trying to narrow down the options of where he’d been kept in his human life. At first I wasn’t sure what they were talking about, because only Edythe was speaking out loud, but eventually I caught up. When Royal was gone, Archie took his spot. I think it must have been while Royal or Eleanor was talking that Archie watched Joss’s video from the dance studio. Edythe had whispered Eleanor’s name he’d growled once and left. He told me about losing his family, and how none of this was worth what he’d lost. Royal was the least careful with his words. He told me about the revenge he’d gotten. How the beautiful daughter pretended to love him to please her father, and then how she had watched when her lover from a rival criminal syndicate had Royal beaten to death, how she’d laughed aloud the whole time. He told me about the only daughter of a powerful man-exactly what kind of power this man wielded, Royal hadn’t entirely understood-and how Royal had planned to marry her and become heir to the dynasty. He told me about a life consumed with vanity, with material things, with ambition. ![]() “and realized it was smarter to disappear. ![]()
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