Dom cleared her throat before continuing. “They’d been embedded in the house since before my mother passed. They found me pummeling his bloody corpse long after he’d already died. And they helped me clean it up, dispose of the body.”
Leo flexed her jaw, though her voice was almost amused. “Dom doesn’t do dirty work.”
Shrugging, Dom glanced at Leo. “I did that night. Isaac wasn’t…pleased, when he found out what I’d done. And he made sure I helped with every part of the cover-up.”
“He knew about The Oracle?” I tilted my head.
“No.” Dom frowned, “The agents they’d embedded, he thought they were maids. But I don’t know why he didn’t question it more, their willingness to help.”
“Probably saw it as another problem to throw money at,” Spencer scoffed. “I bet they got a hefty bonus and an NDA by sunrise.”
Dom ignored Spencer’s goading, turning her gaze back to me. “They recruited me then. And they promised to keep me safe so long as I played my part.”
“What part is that?” I asked, dropping my hands into my lap.
“Getting into the company, staying close enough to watch him, giving them visibility into Zeus while they worked on locating Brennan’s missing shares and seizing control of the company.”
“Is that what they’re after?” Leo grumbled, “That fucking ‘key’?”
But all of Dom and Leo’s talk of shares and The Oracle unlocked a gut-wrenching fear from the depths of my psyche.My hands began to shake — hard enough for Spencer to notice, apparently.
“What’s wrong, Bunny? You look pale.” She placed a hand on my back, rubbing gentle circles.
I wasn’t sure how to begin grappling with the fear that swarmed me. But I knew there was only one person who might have the answer I needed.
Locking eyes with Dom, I drew in a shaky breath. “My dad… Did he really kill himself?”
49
KIERA
The question rippedthrough the room like a bullet, leaving the air buzzing in its wake. But while my two saviors tensed on either side of me, horrified by the implication, Dom just sighed like this was a riddle she’d been turning over for years.
“I’m not sure.” She drummed her fingers against the island. “But it would be odd, wouldn’t it? Both of our parents, major shareholders in Zeus, mysteriously dying by suicide within a few years of one another? All the while my father’s illicit underground trafficking ring grows with its two most likely challengers gone?”
My throat tightened. “And Gabe… was just with me to get my shares? Did Isaac set it all up?”
The tension was palpable as the weight of her response settled over the room. But after a long moment, Dom sighed. “To be honest, I don’t know the answer, Kiera. But I know how we can find out.”
I glanced to Spencer and Leo, but they seemed just as clueless as I was about what the fuck she was getting at.
Pushing off the counter, Dom crossed her tattooed arms over her broad chest. “We go to Delphi. We ask The Oracle in person.”
“In person?” I stammered. I hadn’t even considered the possibility that they had a physical headquarters, though in retrospect, it seemed obvious. To coordinate all of these highly illegal missions, they must have somewhere secure to meet.
It seems like an obvious next step… There are too many coincidences here for it to all be an accident. They know more than they’re telling us…
But while I was trying to figure out what that would even look like, it was clear that cooperation with Dom was completely off the table for Spencer.
“Absolutely fucking not.” She laughed, slinking back in her seat. "You've been lying to us for years, and now you want me to trust you leading us into that mine field? It’s not happening.”
“Come on…” Dom groaned.
But crossing her arms over her chest, Leo backed Spencer up. “You broke your oath, you broke our trust. You don’t get to be surprised when that has repercussions.”
I was surprised that Leo didn’t want to go to get her own questions answered. If her parents knew Dom’s, it was pretty clear that they might have ties to Zeus too. And despite how hurt I was by Dom’s lies, how angry I was that she’d let me disappear into the abyss of Maura and Gabe’s traps, I knew that the answers I needed were in Dom’s hands.
But the hurt of Dom’s betrayal apparently overpowered their curiosity.
