Chapter 27 - The Real Enemy
Clara lowered the gun.
Elizabeth lay on the floor.
Blood spread across her shoulder.
Maya rushed toward her.
“She’s alive,” Samuel shouted.
Clara looked at Victor.
“You were always too slow.”
Victor stared at his wife.
“You.”
Clara smiled.
“The Circle was never yours.”
Maya helped Elizabeth sit up.
“Why did you shoot her?”
“To stop her from telling you the final truth.”
Maya turned.
“What truth?”
Clara looked directly at her.
“Your mother was the one who created the Circle.”
Maya stared.
Anna Reed.
Her biological mother.
The woman everyone had claimed to be a victim.
“She built it,” Clara said.
“Then she disappeared with the money.”
Samuel shook his head.
“That’s not true.”
Clara laughed.
“You were never told the entire story.”
She pulled out another drive.
“This contains Anna’s final confession.”
Maya took it.
Before she could open it, the mansion doors exploded inward.
Armed men entered.
Victor looked toward the windows.
“The Circle.”
Clara smiled.
“They came for Maya.”
Maya looked at her.
“Why?”
May you like
Clara whispered:
“Because you inherited everything.”
