89 LYNNE The news of the explosion at GenTech forced me to face a reality I’d subconsciously denied since the day he disappeared in London: Connor was dead. He was never coming back. Up until that moment, I’d hung onto that slim thread of hope that he was alive somewhere—but now I knew he could not have survived. If he were alive, he would have come back, now that Dante and his associates were dead. His sister Sarah and the children escaped the fire that killed Dante. There had been no mention in any of the news reports of Connor. I wonder if he knew he accomplished what he set out to do? I blinked back a tear as I viewed online footage of the missing children being reunited with their families. I wish our family could have been reunited. I wasn’t sure when I’d made the decision to le

