Page 455 of Hidden Depths
“Help me.”
I moved toward him.
Storm caught my arm.
Ross looked at her.
“Your grandfather saved my life once.”
“And you repaid him by murdering everyone he loved, including him.”
“He would want you to save me.”
Storm stared down at him.
“No.”
Ross’s fingers slipped.
“I’m not my grandfather.”
The rock beneath his hand broke.
August Ross fell into Blackwater.
The current took him before he could scream again.
Silence filled the cavern.
The second gate began to open.
Not violently.
Slowly.
Carefully.
Water drained through channels beneath the floor.
Behind the gate waited a dry chamber.
Shelves lined the walls.
Metal boxes filled them.
Records.
Photographs.
Ledgers.
Enough evidence to destroy everything Ross’s family had built.
Storm picked up the case containing Elias’s final records.
Thomas leaned against Nathan.
“James protected it.”
