Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Three: The Aunt's Confession
She drove to Margaret alone. She told Kane where she was going and he said nothing except "take the security car" and she said "no" and he looked at her once and said "take it and leave the driver at the road" and that was the compromise and she took it.
Margaret lived in a townhouse on the Upper East Side — the kind of building that had been expensive for so long that it had stopped thinking about it. She opened the door before Lila knocked. She had been waiting by the window or she had heard the car or she simply knew, the way the women in this family seemed to know things before they arrived.
She looked older than the last time. Or perhaps Lila was just seeing her more clearly now, in th
