“So you killed him.”
“It was the only way.” She smirked. “But if it’s any consolation, you’ll be joining him soon.”
“And the nanny?”
Bethany rolled her eyes. “That one was Jonas’ doing. He mixed the injection; all I did was depress the plunger.”
Something clattered upstairs, and everyone glanced up at the ceiling as if they had X-ray vision.
Bethany swung back to Ricardo, and even the dim lighting didn’t hide the mad rage in her eyes. “Who did you bring with you?”
“No one.”
“Liar,” she hissed and raised the g*n to Carol’s head.
“No one! I told no one! Damn it, Bethany, listen to me. I came alone! Weren’t you watching when I arrived?”
Bethany signaled to Jonas, and he crept to the corner and disappeared into the gloom.
“That better be a rodent,” Bethany warned in a low, menacing v
