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PART 2<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Claire raced through the mansion with the recorder in her hand, Jason close behind.<\/p>\n

In the west wing, she discovered the recorder was dead\u2014but inside it was a memory card.<\/p>\n

Jason saw it.<\/p>\n

His polite mask vanished.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat card belongs to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Claire smashed a wall sconce, threw the corridor into darkness, and escaped through a hidden panel. The passage twisted behind the walls, showing her secret views into the mansion.<\/p>\n

She saw Dr. Vale with Mrs. Lang.<\/p>\n

She heard Jason hunting her.<\/p>\n

At last, the passage opened into Ethan\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

Claire rushed to his side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found it,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI have the card.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan struggled to speak.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\u201cNot\u2026 Jason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claire froze.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know. Vale too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan shook his head weakly.<\/p>\n

With enormous effort, he wrote one word on a notepad.<\/p>\n

MOTHER.<\/p>\n

Claire stared at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour mother is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the bedroom door opened.<\/p>\n

Jason entered with Dr. Vale.<\/p>\n

Between them stood the woman from the portrait.<\/p>\n

Ethan\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

Alive.<\/p>\n

Elegant. Cold. Powerful.<\/p>\n

Lady Ashbourne smiled gently.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy poor boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason was not the master of Blackwood House.<\/p>\n

He was only her weapon.<\/p>\n

Claire hid the card in her fist, but Lady Ashbourne held out her hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe card, Miss Claire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claire lied. \u201cIt\u2019s already copied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lady Ashbourne laughed softly. \u201cBrave enough to be inconvenient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan\u2019s eyes shifted toward the fireplace.<\/p>\n

Claire followed his gaze and saw a tiny red light blinking behind a bronze clock.<\/p>\n

She realized the recorder had been a decoy.<\/p>\n

There was another device.<\/p>\n

A transmitter.<\/p>\n

She grabbed it just as Lady Ashbourne ordered Jason to stop her.<\/p>\n

But before anyone could act, men in dark suits burst into the room.<\/p>\n

For one second, Claire thought help had arrived.<\/p>\n

Then one of the men bowed to Lady Ashbourne.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe transmission was intercepted, my lady.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claire\u2019s hope collapsed.<\/p>\n

Lady Ashbourne smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see? This is why mothers worry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Ethan pressed something into Claire\u2019s palm.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

A small silver key.<\/p>\n

One word was engraved on it:<\/p>\n

Crypt.<\/p>\n

For the first time, fear touched Lady Ashbourne\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

And far beneath the mansion, something began knocking from inside the family crypt.<\/p>\n

Claire used the key and uncovered what Ethan had hidden below the house: files, recordings, names, payments, and proof that the Ashbourne empire was built on stolen money, falsified medical reports, and arranged accidents.<\/p>\n

But the greatest shock was not Jason.<\/p>\n

It was Ethan\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Ashbourne was supposed to be dead.<\/p>\n

He was not.<\/p>\n

He had been controlling everything from the shadows.<\/p>\n

Jason, Dr. Vale, even Lady Ashbourne\u2019s silence\u2014everything led back to him.<\/p>\n

That night, Nathaniel appeared on every screen in the mansion.<\/p>\n

Older now, but very much alive.<\/p>\n

He smiled at Ethan.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack from the grave before I returned from mine. Dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan gripped his cane, barely able to stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n

Nathaniel\u2019s answer was simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I built.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Vivian Ashbourne, Ethan\u2019s grandmother, knew his old hiding place: the glass greenhouse at the edge of the estate.<\/p>\n

Inside, they found ledgers, drives, passports, and photographs.<\/p>\n

One photograph made Claire stop breathing.<\/p>\n

Her mother.<\/p>\n

In a hospital bed.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel standing beside her.<\/p>\n

Then glass shattered.<\/p>\n

Men attacked.<\/p>\n

Claire and Ethan fled into the rain.<\/p>\n

A black SUV slammed into the greenhouse wall.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel stepped out, smiling, holding Claire\u2019s mother\u2019s silver locket.<\/p>\n

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