“Please.”
“No.”
Claire wiped her face.
“I’m staying too.”
Daniel nodded.
Russell looked around at all of us.
His strange, broken family.
Then something in him softened.
“Fine.”
Rebecca’s
voice suddenly came through the intercom.
“Good evening.”
Claire looked up.
Rebecca appeared on one of the monitors.
She was smiling.
“I know you’re all down there.”
Daniel shouted at the ceiling.
“What do you want?”
“Justice.”
Claire laughed bitterly.
“Get in line.”
Rebecca ignored her.
“Russell stole my mother. Margaret killed her. Thomas covered his own crimes. And all of you got rich from the silence.”
I stepped toward the intercom.
“I didn’t.”
Rebecca paused.
“No. You didn’t.”
“Then why involve me?”
“Because you’re the one person Russell will sacrifice everything to save.”
Russell whispered, “Rebecca—”
She continued.
“And because you have the archive.”
The transfer reached 31%.
Rebecca said, “Stop the transfer.”
“No,” I answered.
“Emily.”
“No.”
“Then I’ll destroy the farmhouse.”
Margaret went pale.
“She can’t.”
Rebecca smiled.
