still furious with you.”
“Fair.”
Daniel dropped beside Russell.
“We need an ambulance.”
“No signal,” I said.
Margaret opened her coat.
A satellite phone hung from her belt.
“I called one before I entered.”
Hayes stared at her.
“You planned this.”
“I planned for Thomas to panic.”
She looked at his gun.
“People reveal themselves when they think they’ve lost control.”
Hayes’s face hardened.
“What did you tell her?”
“Nothing yet.”
“Then don’t.”
I stepped between them.
“Enough.”
Everyone looked at me.
I was still shaking.
Still bleeding from Claire’s slap.
Still staring at the impossible face of the woman who had raised me.
“Someone is going to tell me the truth. **The entire truth. Right now.**”
Margaret closed her eyes.
Then she nodded.
“Thirty-four years ago, Russell, Thomas and I built the company together.”
Daniel stared.
“You worked with Dad?”
“I helped create the system that became his private
