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Evangeline couldn’t forget Blake’s last words, let alone the look he gave her. The key that was still in his hand, seemed to burn.

When Alec stopped the car outside the mansion door, neither of them had the courage to leave. Alec feared the moment to tell what happened to Audrey and Evie tried to find a loophole to give Alec the key.

He looks at the clock. It was past one in the morning.

"Audrey should already be asleep." Alec comments aloud. "Better tell her in the morning.”

"Yeah... I need a bath. Take off those clothes...”

Alec jumps out of the car and waits for Evangeline to do the same, so the two can enter the mansion. Plans to inform Audrey only the next day go through the ground, because when the boyfriends enter the house, the blonde was coming down the stairs.

"What happened!?" His eyes go directly into the arms of Evangeline, who were stained with blood. "Got hurt? Where’s Dad?”

Evie and Alec exchange a quick glance, but that was enough for Audrey to unders