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Chapter Thirty Two_Flashback Three

Elena.

"They'll be back soon." I glanced around my stepmother's office, my anxiety a tight knot in my chest. "We should leave."

We already had what we came here for. Four hundred thousand dollars in cash, which Evangeline had kept in her secret safe. It was more than enough to start a new life and a family with.

Cracking Evangeline's safe wasn't rocket science. She used the date she got married to her one true love, my father.

Even thinking about it made me want to let go of my lunch all over the floor.

That was if I wasn't carried out of the mansion in cuffs first.

"Hold on. I almost... got it." James grunted as he pried open the custom-made lock of a small metal box attached to the safe's exterior. It served as a second layer of security for Evangeline's most prized possession: an antique family heirloom, a diamond ring worth millions of dollars I was sure she planned to give to Elliot once he was ready to get married.

I already regretted telling James about the ring. I should hav
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