“What?” My father asked, looking at me strangely. “The kid? No. He’s nobody. Mason Greyson. Mason came to me with the offer. He was the next CEO.”

I breathed a sigh of relief that I hadn’t known that I’d been holding in. I had been so convinced that Jacob had been the one to kill Blaire for so long, that when I learnt that it hadn’t been him, it had been an intense thing to let go of.

And then after having gone through everything with him this past ...