Chapter 14

He breathed shakily. "The people I worked for-they are not my father in his company-well, they do not just go away. I tried to leave, and they unmistakably delivered a message. Do you remember that accident? The one I told you was a drunk driver? It was not. It was them. It was a warning to me." Jennifer's stomach dropped. She remembered that night when Devlin had stepped into the room late, bruised and bleeding, swearing that someone had run him off the road. She had believed his words. Yet, she had not known the whole story. "I kept journals," he continued. "Things I could not say out loud. I hid them in places I thought no one would look. But now I know they found some. Maybe all. If they think you've read them, then they'll come after you too." He looked straight into the camera. "Get out, Jen. Leave the house. Trust no one but Byron. He is the only one who never had a reason to lie to you." Then the video stopped. Tears brimmed in her eyes, but she swallowed them back. She cl