Ethan listened to Emery Shaw, a thought stirring in the back of his mind. How could so many people be tied to me?
The ones he truly cared about were safe inside the Whitmore family's Hidden Territory.
Still, calling Kiara Quinn "connected" to him wasn't exactly wrong. The tie between them was fragile, almost laughably so. They'd barely exchanged a handful of words in their lives.
As Ethan sifted through the memories he had taken from Director Vaughn, he stumbled across something strange: a gap, a fragment wiped completely clean. Did that old bastard use his Soul Power to delete a memory before he died?
The thought landed with certainty. Arthur Finch—the man Vaughn had once been—had indeed erased something. And if that memory still existed, Ethan would never have done the assassination mission. He would have been chasing an entirely different path.
The lost memory concerned a meeting between Arthur Finch and Zachary Steele.
