Belinda had also forged the letter from Prudence about leaving town, ensuring enough doubt around Braxton that she"d never died in the library fire. Not even Hiram had known Belinda wrote the message. When Hiram moved out, his staff found the key among Prudence"s effects and tossed it in a box. It wound up in Hiram"s study, as part of his collection, but he"d never known what it had belonged to. After escaping the room in the library, when Prudence pushed Ian"s body into the nearby hole, the half-key had fallen with Ian into the hole and had been partially buried with his remains.
Like a good and loyal son, something I"d been saying way too often lately, I donned the costume and happily escorted Emma through the new neighborhood to collect candy. When we arrived at our last house, I reali
