Her fingers moved quickly across her father’s palm as she scanned the page, eyeing the link below her story.
Another highborn revealed.
And another.
And another.
Not her mother, then. La Roux. He must have set it up as a dead man’s switch. If he wasn’t alive to prevent it, every piece of dirt on every highborn and lowborn he’d had in his clutches would be revealed and sent to the press.
The switch had been flipped.
Had he forgotten about it, or had he planned it all along, knowing that Bullstow wouldn’t change their official story after it broke, knowing that his reputation would be safe? That his children wouldn’t suffer under it?
He’d ended up with everything he’d wanted in the end, except his life and a place in the senate.
“Senator La Roux. He did this. He—”
“Yes, and you have to get out of here now,” her father said, tugging her toward the door. “It’s the only way I can keep you from a holding cell. I need to figure out how to handle this. I need to call Chief Shaw and find out what evidence has leaked. Go now.”
Lila opened the door to the private booth and hurried from the hotel toward her car.
Slipping her key into the ignition, she faltered.
She had no idea where to go.
Lila's story continues in book four, Forged Absolution, ready for release in Summer 2017!