"Alexander, seriously, think hard—was there anything weird that year?" Otherwise, that person wouldn’t hate him this much. No one goes through all this trouble—only striking after making him taste losing what he cares about the most—unless there’s a deep-rooted grudge. A wild thought popped into Vivian’s mind—what if Alexander somehow caused the death of someone that person deeply loved? What the heck happened during those two missing years from Matthew Drake’s life? Who was he even with? Too bad she couldn’t trace any of that, or she might’ve figured out the whole backstory by now. “No,” Alexander’s eyes were stormy but his voice was calm and firm. “Vivian, my memory’s sharp. I clearly remember visiting my cousin with my aunt that time—nothing out of the ordinary happened

