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have, I know this, but she wasn’t with her family any longer and, though I knew that she was alive, I didn’t know she was living as she had. And yes, I did fire her stepfather after I heard the way he...the things that she told you. Did she mention that they used her as their housemaid as well as live in sitter? Not only that, but she pretty much ran the household, did the cooking, cleaning, as well as kept the yard mowed and other things that a household should be doing together, not a single person.”
    “No. All she told me so far is how he’d beaten her the other day. You should have seen her back. I’m sure there are more marks on her than what I could see. It looked like he used the buckle end of a belt and it cut into her badly.” Elijah had been shaken to his core when he’d seen her wounds. “She should have had medical treatment, not walking around trying to find a way to cash in her winnings.”
    “I’m sure that the money was much more important to her. It meant a way of life she’d not had until then. And perhaps she thought that with a home, she’d be safe. I know that when I have a place to call my own, I feel better about it.” So did Elijah. “But about her stepparents. Her parents, what do you know of them? I know very little. Her mother died just about the time that Gloria was having her second child, both of which belong to Howard. But there was never any mention of her sire.”
    “I only know what she told me about her family and her stepbrothers. I’m not even sure she knows who he might be. About the brothers, she only said that they were helping Howard beat her. That one of them holds her down while he takes the belt to her. Do you have any idea what they might have done to her had they known about the money?” Noah nodded. “Christ, she has been living with the knowledge that she was a millionaire, while being beaten by the people that were to care for her. What a sick fucking world we live in.”
    “The day that she found me to use my phone, I thought even then that she was a beauty. Just so young and so afraid of life. I think...yes, I know that she knew what they’d been about. And when I listened in on the conversation between her and Howard, I knew then that she’d planned for me to know what he’d done.” Elijah said that she had. “Very smart girl, don’t you think?”
    “I know that. But what I don’t understand is why you say I can’t go and kill them. I don’t think there is a more deserving family than them.” Noah told him it was about the money. “But we’ve already established that they had nothing to do with her winnings. And that they’d not supported her in any way that could come back to them.”
    “You know that, and we know that, but the public will not. Even if one person finds out that she won and then her family turns up dead, what do you think they’re going to think about her? And her involvement? And with her being your mate so soon after their deaths and the winnings, what do you think they’re going to think of you and your family?”
    “They’ll think that we planned it all. That she had them killed so as not to share in her money, and that I only married her for it. Or that I married her because we killed them together.” Noah said that was it perfectly. “But none of that is true.”
    “Of course it’s not. But do you think anyone wants to hear the truth when the scandal is so much better? People, humans I think, love to have drama in their lives. I do believe that they’d not be able to function should they not have a daily dose of it.” Elijah thought he was right. He didn’t have to like it though. “Marry her and close that door. Another will open. Her family will come forward then, wanting a piece of your money because of who you are. But if I were you, I’d not mention her money just yet. So long as she lays claim to it, she doesn’t have to go public, correct?”
    “Not in Ohio, no. She can claim the money and