He warned her in a serious tone.
Stella Lockwood blinked, her mind racing. Instead of agreeing, her eyes suddenly lit up with a fiery intensity. "Someone's investigating my father and brother's deaths? Who?"
Sean Quinn sighed inwardly. 'This girl is getting way too good at picking up on the details now.'
"Is it my Second Brother?"
Her voice trembled as she asked the question. As the two words "Second Brother" left her lips, an image of someone she had all but forgotten surfaced in her mind. He was a cold, arrogant, and withdrawn boy, so aloof that no one could get close. But he had been incredibly close with her older brother.
Sean Quinn flinched at her words. 'No... she has to be Stella,' he thought. 'Otherwise, how could she possibly remember she even had a "Second Brother"?'
"Second Brother?" he feigned ignorance. "You only have one older brother and two older sisters. Where would a 'Second Brother' come from?"
