~~ETHEL~~
"Because it was stolen by the bastard who murdered him in cold blood."
"Keanu..." I sucked in a sharp breath as I stared at him in shock.
I'd known that he lost his father ten years ago long before I even cared enough to know about him, but his father had been murdered?
"I went to the cabin because we hadn't heard from him in three days. And there he was on the floor, stabbed four times in the abdomen." Keanu continued, his voice without inflection like he was reading an article. "The place had been ransacked. They stole the pendant and a few other valuables."
"So he was killed during a robbery?" I asked carefully.
He smiled. It was the kind of cold, wry smile that wasn't a smile at all.
"That's what the investigators concluded."
I stared at him, the way he'd said it tell
