"So this is where you have been hiding. Like a rat in a filthy hovel. I should have known you were here."
"Yet, you did not. You really believed my parents when they said that I had just passed through. Where did you think I would have gone?"
"Somewhere safer, if you were smart. Then again, nothing you have done so far has suggested that you might possess that quality."
"Tell me the whole truth, Anthony, and let me decide whether you die right now in this dusty attic. Why did you try to have Lily killed?"
A look of bewilderment settled on his face. "Tried to?"
"Yes. A failed attempt, one of your many. It seems that you are hardly any good at the mercenary things you attempt, Anthony. Lily survived. The man you sent to kill her did not succeed. She lives. In fact, she has been visiting
