(Eleanor's POV)
The man chuckled again. The sound was low and ugly in the empty warehouse.
He stepped closer until the black mask was all I could see.
"Since you’re going to die anyway," he said, "I’ll let you in on a few things."
My throat went dry. I listened with no other choice.
"We’ve been looking for you for a very long time," he continued. "And now we’re going to send you to hell in exchange for what your mother did."
I frowned. "What?"
"She thinks we forgot," he said. "But we don’t forget. We will come after everyone in the Hawthorne family."
Hawthorne? The name didn't ring a bell.
He tilted his head. "It took years. But we finally found the most important one of all."
I stared at him. Shock ran through me.
I didn’t understand. The only family I had ever known we
