The color drained from the faces of everyone in the room. Beatrice, the person at the center of it all, was especially stunned. The words on the tip of her tongue changed to, "Tell me. I know what's at stake."
Arabella took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice, "In your ordeal... I saw a shopping mall."
"A shopping mall?" A jolt of fear went through Beatrice, and she asked instinctively, "What kind of mall?"
"I can't say for sure." Arabella struggled to recall the fragmented images that had just flooded her mind. "It was a really big mall. There were jewelry stores, clothing stores, restaurants... Right, and a movie theater. On the day of the incident, there was a poster for one of my second brother's movies outside the theater."
Hector Donovan's expression was complicated. If he didn't know his own sister better than to make things up, he would have suspected Arabella was a spy sent by his rivals to smear his name!
