Chapter Fifty-Four Aubrey
Chapter Fifty-Four
Aubrey
I expected better. Not much but a little. They’d had years to refine and assess. Surely Hanna was smarter than this. Stella
had all that fancy education. Marni claimed to be a teacher.
So disappointing.
They were looking in the wrong place. Getting their facts wrong. Missing the obvious. Stepping over hints. Talking to the
wrong people.
I’d hoped with enough pressure they’d lead me where I needed to go. No such luck. If they had the answers they had them buried
so deep, under layers of delusions and deceptions, miles of commissions and omissions, we’d never dig them out again.
After all those years of waiting and planning, studying them—learning who they were with their masks on and the lies fully
entrenched—I was not one step closer to getting the assist I needed. Like with every other minute of my life, the burden fell
on me. I couldn’t depend on any of them to exercise a single second of rational thinking.
The big reveal would happen. With or without them. Then they would know why it had to unravel this way and be happy that I stopped at only upending their lives instead of taking them.
Except for one. One person would be destroyed . . . once I verified who it should be.