Chapter 33 - THE MESSAGE
I dropped to my knees and hugged Noah.
He clung to me.
“I thought I'd lost you.”
“I wasn't hurt.”
“Who took you?”
He looked confused.
“Grandma.”
I froze.
“Your grandmother?”
He nodded.
“She said she had to protect me.”
Julian knelt beside us.
“Where is she?”
Noah pointed toward the tunnel.
“She went to find Grandpa.”
My heart stopped.
“Your grandfather?”
Noah nodded.
“He said Grandpa was alive.”
Julian looked at me.
Neither of us spoke.
Noah handed me the paper.
I opened it.
Emily,
If Noah is with you, then my plan worked.
Do not trust Arthur.
I stared at the words.
Arthur had just rescued Noah.
Yet my grandfather said not to trust him.
The letter continued.
The man who brought you the box is not the man you think he is.
I looked at Julian.
“What does that mean?”
He read the next line.
Arthur Bell died seven years ago.
My blood ran cold.
“But we saw him.”
Julian nodded.
“Then who was that man?”
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The final sentence answered it.
He is the man who killed me.
