“It's hurting me now,” I replied. “It has for a while, whether you like it or not.”
He went quiet after that, and for a second, I thought he was going to shut down again.
But he didn’t.
“She’s not just my sister,” he said.
That made me frown slightly.
“What does that mean?”
“It means Nina doesn’t answer to anyone,” he continued. “If she was involved in your father’s death, then she wasn’t just hired randomly.”
“So someone sent her,” I said.
“Yes.”
“And you don’t know who.”
“Not yet.”
I studied him for a second, letting that settle.
“That’s not the part that bothers me,” I said slowly.
His expression shifted slightly.
“Then what is?”
“That she’s been this close to me without me knowing,” I replied. “That she looked at me like she recognized something and I couldn’t place it.”
