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Chapter 832
A few hours later…Rowan dropped Elijah Langston off outside Crescent Park, at the same spot where she had picked him up earlier that evening. He had barely stepped away from the red car when she threw it into reverse. Elijah had to step aside to keep her from knocking him off his feet.He watched her speed away, the headlights sweeping across the dark road ahead of her. With a cold smile, he crossed the street to a payphone, punched in a number he knew by heart and held the receiver to his ear. It rang a few times before someone picked up, but there wasn’t a word from the other end.“Did I wake you?” Elijah asked.“Husband?!”Elijah pulled the receiver away from his ear. Only when he was sure it was safe to put it back did he attempt to speak again. “I don’t have a phone yet, Tessa. Listen, there’s something I need to tell you.”“Husband, where are you right now? I’ll have someone bring you a new phone and my cred
Chapter 831
When Elijah Langston stepped out of Celeste’s chamber, four women of the Zenith Sisterhood were waiting at the far end of the hallway. Rowan was pacing in front of the other three. The moment she saw him, she stopped and marched his way, her sisters following with looks every bit as hostile as hers.Elijah kept walking. They met near the middle of the hallway, where Rowan angled her shoulder to knock him aside as she passed. He’d expected her to try that again. A slight shift of his arm was enough to send her stumbling, and by the time she recovered her footing and spun around, he was already walking away.“Yeah, keep walking!” she snapped through her teeth before leading the others into Mother’s chamber.Elijah glanced back as the last of them went inside. He was about to lean against the wall when a familiar, gentle voice called to him from the adjoining hallway.“Mr. Elijah, you’re here!”Iris was coming to meet him
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Elijah lowered his head. “Your cure, I—”“Don’t apologize,” Celeste said sternly. “You did what you had to do to survive. If losing my hope of a cure was the price of keeping you alive, then it was a good price to pay.”There was concern in her face as she added, “I only fear you’re going to waste the life you’ve been given. That’s precisely why I refuse to help you pursue this vengeance any further.”Elijah was quiet for a while before he nodded. He still couldn’t accept her decision, but for the first time he was beginning to understand it. Even so, there was one thing he couldn’t leave without asking. “Then I only need one thing from you. One answer, and I promise I won’t trouble you with any more questions.”“I can’t tell you that.”He looked up in astonishment. He hadn’t even asked her yet.“I know what you want to know most, Elijah,” Celeste said with a sigh.His hand closed into a fist, and he asked her anyway. “Is Cassandra still alive, or did she die on the night of the mass
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“You have nothing more to give?” Elijah Langston stared at Celeste, his anger rising again. “We had an agreement. Whatever you told me tonight was supposed to be my burden to bear. Whatever I chose to do with that information would be no fault of yours.”He shook his head in disbelief. “And what do you mean by this path of madness Cassandra followed? What was this grand scheme you keep talking about? If my mother was responsible for what happened to the Langstons, then I need to know how and why!”“I’m sorry, dear nephew.” Celeste’s expression was troubled, but her voice was firm. “I’ve realized I can’t tell you anything more. If I go on, I know I won’t be able to forgive myself in the end.”“That is not your decision to make!” Elijah shouted.“Yes, it is.” The calmness of her answer only frustrated him further. “I should never have agreed to our deal in the first place. I’ve carried these secrets for so many years that I suppose I lost myself for a while. Seeing you alive again after
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Elijah Langston straightened in disbelief. However quickly Celeste had recovered her composure, he had seen her flinch at the mention of the Order of Seven.Richard DiLaurentis had spoken of them before. Even Alaric Voss, the Ultimate Grandmaster, had warned him that he could never defeat them. The best he could hope for was to survive.As far as he was concerned, Celeste had just given him the last confirmation he needed. The Order of Seven were really the people behind the massacre of his Langston family fifteen years ago.He was about to demand an explanation when Celeste spoke.“You’re this bold because you have no family left, Elijah. No one to threaten, nothing precious that can be taken away from you.” She held his gaze. “You believe you have nothing left to lose and therefore nothing to fear.”Something flashed in Elijah’s eyes at those words. He hadn’t meant to give anything away, but Celeste saw it.“Wait. You do have someone?”Elijah said nothing.“Children?” she asked. Wh
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Elijah Langston paused as he considered her question. He had never cared much for the title of Insolent Expert, and it still sounded strange to hear it outside Brooklyn Heights.Grandmaster Lucius had been the first to address him by that name beyond the West. Now Celeste wanted him to confirm something she seemed to know already.Perhaps it would have been easier to deny it. He had never chosen the title for himself. It was the five great families of Brooklyn Heights who considered him insolent simply because he dared to demand retribution for what they had done to the Langstons.But he understood what Celeste was asking. After everything she had told him tonight, he saw little reason to hide anything from her.“I am Elijah Langston,” he finally answered. “You know that already.”“I do now,” Celeste replied, her expression giving him little to read. “You’ve certainly made quite a name for yourself in the West.”“This has nothing to do with a name or fame.” Elijah shook his head. “I s
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