THE NIGHT ELENA DIED
Saint-Clair, French Riviera. Nearly three decades earlier.
Eleanor remembers everything.
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The last time Eleanor Vale saw Elena Marceau alive, she was wearing Richard’s shirt. Nothing else. Bare legs. Bare feet. Dark hair tangled from the wind. A cigarette burning between two fingers.
She stood on the terrace of the Hôtel Saint-Clair late that night, looking out over the Mediterranean as though she owned it. Nearly three decades later, Eleanor would remember everything about that moment: the white curtains breathing through the open doors, the champagne sweating inside a silver bucket, the distant lights of yachts anchored beyond the bay, the little gold lighter Elena kept clicking open and closed with one hand, and the song playing from the bar downstairs.
She would remember all of it. Except the one thing that mattered. Who followed Elena when she left.
Earlier that evening, the Côte d’Azur had glowed gold. The Hôtel Saint-Clair sat high above the Mediterranean, its pale façade carved into the hillside between umbrella pines and gardens heavy with bougainvillea. Below, a private beach curved around a small bay. White umbrellas lined the sand. Wooden boats moved lazily across water so blue it seemed artificial.
The hotel had been there since the twenties. Old money liked places that had been there before them. The Vales had been returning to the same suite every summer for years. Eleanor considered consistency a virtue. Her husband considered it laziness. Richard considered it home.
Richard Vale was young, tanned, handsome and completely convinced his mother worried too much. Eleanor knew this because he’d told her approximately six hundred times.
“You’re staring.” Eleanor looked away from the terrace. Her husband, William, was fastening a cufflink in the mirror. “I am observing.” “That’s staring with better breeding.”
Eleanor ignored him. Through the open doors she could see Richard below near the pool. Elena was with him. Of course she was. She wore a red swimsuit beneath an oversized white shirt and enormous sunglasses she’d bought in Cannes a few days earlier. Richard said something. Elena threw her head back and laughed. Even from two floors above, Eleanor could hear her.
William came to stand beside his wife. “You like her.” Eleanor glanced at him. “I do.” “You hide it well.” “I like her considerably more when she’s not smoking.” “She makes Richard happy.” Eleanor watched her son take Elena’s hand. “Yes.” “Isn’t that enough?” “No.”
William sighed. “Of course not.” Eleanor turned away from the terrace. “Happiness is temporary.” “Good morning to you too.” “It’s almost evening.” “Somehow that makes it worse.”
Eleanor smiled despite herself. William kissed her temple. Below them, Elena screamed. Eleanor spun toward the balcony. Richard had picked her up and thrown her into the pool. Elena surfaced swearing in French. William laughed. Eleanor put one hand against her chest. “For God’s sake.” “She can swim, Eleanor.” “That is not the point.” “What is the point?”
She watched Elena drag Richard into the water after her. For a moment, both of them disappeared beneath the surface. Then they came up laughing. Eleanor didn’t answer. She wasn’t sure.
By early evening, the terrace bar was full. Women wore silk and linen. Men wore jackets despite the heat. Waiters moved between tables carrying champagne, oysters and bowls of olives nobody seemed to eat. The Mediterranean below had changed from blue to silver.
Eleanor sat beneath a striped awning drinking mineral water when Matteo Laurent arrived. He kissed her on both cheeks. “Eleanor.” “Matteo.” “You look disappointed to see me.” “I frequently do.” He smiled.
Matteo had the kind of charm Eleanor distrusted on principle. He was already involved in his family’s hotels, though his father still referred to it as helping out. He spoke four languages, wore linen better than most men wore tuxedos and had never, as far as Eleanor could tell, arrived anywhere on time.
He pulled out the chair opposite her. “Where’s William?” “Upstairs.” “Richard?” Eleanor looked toward the bar. Matteo followed her gaze.
Richard and Elena stood together near the balustrade. Elena’s wet hair had been replaced by a loose dark knot. The red swimsuit was gone. Now she wore a cream dress that moved around her ankles in the breeze. Richard’s hand rested at the small of her back. Matteo’s smile faded slightly. Eleanor noticed.
“You’re very quiet,” she said. “Am I?” “You usually exhaust me within thirty seconds.” “Perhaps I’m maturing.” “I sincerely hope not.” He smiled again. But his eyes remained on Elena. Eleanor saw that too.
Elena Marceau had grown up nearby. Her father owned a small vineyard inland. Her mother had died when Elena was young. She spoke English with an accent Richard adored and Eleanor suspected Elena exaggerated whenever she wanted something. Which was often.
She wasn’t wealthy. Not by Vale standards. She wasn’t connected. She wasn’t interested in becoming either. That was what Eleanor liked most about her.
The first time they’d met, Eleanor had asked Elena what she thought of New York. Elena had shrugged. “Too many people trying to become important.” Eleanor had laughed for almost a minute. Richard had looked horrified.
After several summers, Elena had become part of them. Almost. There was always an almost with families like the Vales. Eleanor knew that. Elena knew it better.
Dinner began later that evening. A long table had been set on a private terrace above the sea. Candles burned inside glass hurricanes. White roses floated in shallow bowls. Beyond the balustrade, the Mediterranean had turned black.
Richard sat beside Elena. Matteo sat opposite them. Eleanor watched all three. Something was wrong. Not obviously. Richard was laughing. Elena was drinking wine. Matteo was telling William a story about a disastrous hotel opening in Rome. But Elena kept touching the little gold lighter beside her plate. Open. Close. Open. Close.
“You’ll break it,” Eleanor said. Elena looked up. “What?” “The lighter.” Elena looked down at her hand. “Oh.” She stopped. Richard touched her knee beneath the table. “You okay?” “Perfect.” Eleanor heard the lie. Apparently Richard didn’t.
Dessert arrived. Nobody ate much of it. Later, William went upstairs complaining of a headache. Matteo disappeared shortly afterward. Richard ordered another bottle of wine.
Elena stood. “I need some air.” Richard looked toward the ocean. “We’re outside.” Elena didn’t smile. “I mean alone.” She walked away.
Richard watched her go. Eleanor lifted her glass. “What did you do?” “Why does everyone assume I did something?” “Experience.” He leaned back. “We had an argument.” “About?” “Nothing.” “Then it wasn’t an argument.”
Richard stared toward the garden where Elena had disappeared. “She wants to go to Paris.” “For how long?” “I don’t know.” “Ask her.” “I did.” “And?” “She doesn’t know either.”
Eleanor studied her son. “You’re frightened.” Richard laughed. “Of Paris?” “Of her discovering she doesn’t need you.” His expression changed. Eleanor knew she’d hit it.
“She loves me.” “Then stop behaving like that entitles you to determine what she does.” Richard pushed his chair back. “I’m going to bed.” “Richard.” He stopped. “Do not make a permanent decision because you’re frightened of a temporary feeling.” He looked at his mother. “You should embroider that on a cushion.” Then he left.
Eleanor watched him disappear into the hotel. On the table beside his unfinished wine sat Elena’s gold lighter.
Later, Eleanor found Elena on the upper terrace. She was wearing Richard’s white shirt. The cream dress from dinner had been abandoned somewhere. A cigarette glowed between her fingers. She had retrieved the little gold lighter from the dinner table.
Eleanor stepped through the curtains. “You’re smoking.” Elena looked over her shoulder. “Your powers of observation are extraordinary.” “I thought you stopped.” “I did.” “Apparently not.” Elena took another drag. “You sound like Richard.” “Insulting me won’t improve your evening.” That earned the smallest smile.
Eleanor walked to the balustrade. The night was warm and almost completely still. Below them, the hotel gardens descended toward the beach. Tiny lights traced the path to the water. Farther out, yachts glowed in the darkness.
For a while, neither woman spoke. Then Elena held out the cigarette. “Want one?” “I haven’t smoked in years.” “That wasn’t my question.” Eleanor looked at it. Then took it. Elena smiled. “I knew I liked you.”
Eleanor inhaled. Immediately regretted it. Elena laughed. “Don’t.” “You look horrified.” “I am.” Eleanor handed it back.
“You’re not going to Paris.” Elena’s smile disappeared. “Richard told you.” “He didn’t need to.” “He thinks I’m leaving him.” “Are you?” Elena looked toward the sea. “I don’t know.” “Do you love him?” “Yes.” The answer came immediately. Eleanor believed her.
“Then what’s the problem?” Elena laughed softly. “You really want to know?” “I wouldn’t have asked otherwise.” Elena turned toward her. “He loves me when I’m standing next to him.” Eleanor frowned. “What does that mean?” “He loves me here.” She gestured toward the hotel. “This version of me.”
“Richard isn’t that shallow.” “I didn’t say he was.” “Then what are you saying?” Elena looked back toward the sea. “That he has already decided what our life will look like.” “And you haven’t?” “I want my own life.” “You can have both.” “Can I?”
Eleanor hesitated. Elena noticed. “Exactly.” “Richard would never stop you from working.” “No. He would just make it very easy not to.” Eleanor understood that more than she wanted to admit.
Elena took another drag from the cigarette. “I’ve been offered a job.” “In Paris?” “Yes.” “What kind?” “A gallery.” Eleanor smiled. “You should take it.” Elena turned. “You mean that?” “Of course.” “Richard won’t.” “Richard will survive disappointment.”
Elena laughed. Then her expression changed. “There is something else.” Eleanor waited. Elena extinguished the cigarette. Her fingers were trembling. Only slightly. “What?”
Before Elena could answer, footsteps sounded inside. Richard appeared between the curtains. He looked from his mother to Elena. “Can we talk?” Elena’s face closed. “We are talking.” “Alone.”
Eleanor looked between them. “I’ll leave.” “No,” Elena said. Richard frowned. “Elena.” “No.” Her voice sharpened. “You don’t get to summon me whenever you decide you’re ready to talk.” “I didn’t summon you.” “You’ve ignored me all evening.” “You told me you wanted space.” “And now I don’t.”
Richard rubbed one hand across his face. “Can we please not do this in front of my mother?” Elena laughed. “Why? Eleanor already knows everything.” Eleanor looked at her. Not everything. Apparently.
Richard stepped onto the terrace. “What do you want from me?” “I want you to listen.” “I am listening.” “No. You’re waiting for me to finish.” Richard’s jaw tightened.
Elena stepped closer to him. “You don’t get to decide what happens to me.” The sentence lodged itself somewhere inside Eleanor. Decades later, she would still remember every word.
Richard lowered his voice. “Nobody is deciding anything.” “You called Paris.” Eleanor looked at her son. Richard’s face changed. “What?” “You called them.” Elena’s eyes filled with angry tears. “You told them I wasn’t available.”
Eleanor stared at Richard. “Is that true?” He didn’t answer. “Richard.” “I was trying to fix this.” Elena laughed. A broken little sound. “You tried to destroy it.” “It’s a job.” “It’s my job.” “I can buy you a gallery tomorrow.”
Silence. Even Richard seemed to hear what he’d said. Elena stared at him. “There.” “What?” “That.” She wiped angrily beneath one eye. “That is exactly what you don’t understand.”
“Elena—” “No.” She walked toward the doors. Richard reached for her. She pulled away. “Don’t touch me.”
Eleanor stood. “Elena.” She stopped. For one second, Eleanor thought she might turn around. She didn’t. She disappeared through the curtains. Richard followed. Eleanor caught his arm. “Let her go.” “She thinks I ruined her life.” “Tonight, you tried.”
His face hardened. “You don’t understand.” “No, Richard.” Eleanor released him. “I understand perfectly.”
Sometime before midnight, Elena came back. Eleanor was alone on the terrace. Richard had disappeared downstairs. The music from the hotel bar drifted upward through the gardens.
Elena stepped through the curtains. Still wearing Richard’s shirt. Still barefoot. Her face was dry now. She walked to the balustrade and stared at the Mediterranean. Eleanor said nothing.
Eventually Elena spoke. “I hate the ocean at night.” Eleanor looked at her. “Why?” “You can’t see what’s underneath.” The answer was so unlike Elena that Eleanor remembered it.
She walked over. “Stay here tonight.” Elena shook her head. “I’m going home.” “I’ll have a car take you.” “No.” “Don’t be stubborn.” “It’s one of my better qualities.” Despite everything, Eleanor smiled.
Elena reached into her pocket. The gold lighter. She placed it in Eleanor’s hand. “Give that to Richard.” “You can give it to him tomorrow.” Elena closed Eleanor’s fingers around it. “Maybe.”
Something in her voice made Eleanor uncomfortable. “Elena.” The younger woman looked at her. For a moment, Eleanor saw fear. Not sadness. Not anger. Fear.
“What were you going to tell me earlier?” Elena glanced toward the open doors. “Nothing.” “That wasn’t nothing.” “I’ll tell you tomorrow.” “Tell me now.” Elena smiled. It was faint. Almost apologetic. “Tomorrow.”
She kissed Eleanor on both cheeks. Then walked inside. Eleanor remained on the terrace. The gold lighter sat heavy in her hand.
A few minutes later, she heard footsteps crossing the marble floor inside. Someone else leaving. Eleanor didn’t turn around. She would spend the next several decades wishing she had.
Blackthorn. Present day.
Eleanor opened her eyes. The library was dark. For several seconds, she didn’t know where she was. Then the old room returned. The books. The fireplace. The black windows. The photograph on the table.
Her hand was still resting on Elena’s face. Eleanor pulled it away. She had fallen asleep in the chair. Grey morning light had begun creeping through the curtains. Her cane rested beside her. The house was silent.
Eleanor reached into the small locked drawer of the table beside her. She removed a key, crossed the library and unlocked the bottom cabinet of Richard’s desk. Inside was a wooden box. She carried it back to the chair.
Nobody had opened it in decades except her. Inside were letters, photographs, a hotel receipt, a folded newspaper clipping, and a small gold lighter.
Eleanor picked it up. The metal was scratched now. She ran her thumb over the initials engraved beneath it. E. M. “Tomorrow,” Eleanor whispered.
Alex woke to someone hammering on her bedroom door. Not knocking. Hammering. She opened one eye. The room was painfully bright. Her laptop was still open beside her. She had apparently fallen asleep while searching French newspaper archives.
The knocking came again. “Alex.” Theo. She dragged herself out of bed. “Unless Blackthorn is on fire, go away.” “It might be worse.” That woke her.
Alex opened the door. Theo stood in yesterday’s trousers and a wrinkled white shirt. His hair looked terrible. “You slept here?” “Guest room.” “Why?” “Your grandmother gave me whisky.” “That doesn’t explain anything.” “It was very good whisky.”
He held out his phone. “You need to see this.” Alex took it. A gossip account had posted the photograph. Of course it had.
Vale family’s White Party ends in mystery after anonymous photo sent to hundreds of guests.
Below it were thousands of comments. Alex scrolled. Speculation. Names. Conspiracy theories. Someone had already identified Elena. Someone else had found Matteo. A third person claimed Elena had been pregnant.
Alex stopped. “What?” Theo leaned over. “What?” She showed him. The comment had no source. Just: “My mother worked at Saint-Clair back then. Everyone knew Elena Marceau was pregnant when she died.”
Alex stared at it. “No.” Theo took the phone. “It could be bullshit.” “It probably is.” Neither sounded convinced.
Alex grabbed her laptop. “Where’s Dad?” “Your mother said he left early.” “Grandmother?” “Library.” Alex was already moving.
She found Eleanor standing beside the fireplace. Fully dressed. Perfect hair. Ivory blouse. Black trousers. As though she’d slept eight hours rather than none. The wooden box was gone. The gold lighter was back inside it.
Alex entered without knocking. “Was Elena pregnant?” Eleanor didn’t move. Alex closed the door behind her. “Grandmother.” “Good morning.” “Was she?” “Coffee first.” “I don’t want coffee.” “That explains the hostility.”
“Hundreds of people received a photograph of my father and a woman who later died. I’ve barely slept, and the internet now thinks Dad murdered his pregnant girlfriend.”
Eleanor’s face changed. Not at murdered. At pregnant. Alex saw it. “Oh my God.” “Do not believe everything you read online.” “That wasn’t an answer.” “No.” “No, it wasn’t an answer or no, she wasn’t pregnant?”
Eleanor walked toward the window. Morning light poured across the lawn. Staff were already dismantling the White Party below. Tables disappeared. Flowers were loaded into vans. By lunchtime there would be almost no evidence it had happened.
Alex followed her. “Grandmother.” Eleanor looked out toward the ocean. “I don’t know.” Alex stopped. “You don’t know?” “Elena was going to tell me something that night.” “What?” “She never did.”
“Did you think she was pregnant?” Eleanor turned. “For years, I have tried not to think about what she was going to tell me.” Alex studied her. That was perhaps the least convincing sentence she’d ever heard her grandmother say. “You’ve thought about it every day.” Eleanor’s eyes met hers. “Yes.”
Later that morning, Camille Hart received the coroner’s file. She hadn’t slept. Her apartment looked worse in daylight. The coffee cups had multiplied. The blinds were half open. New York moved noisily below her windows while Camille sat at the dining table in yesterday’s clothes.
An email appeared. No subject. One attachment. Marceau, E. Complete.
Camille opened it. Page after page. Police notes. Witness statements. Medical reports. Photographs she didn’t want to see. She scrolled slowly.
Elena Marceau had been recovered from the Mediterranean the following morning. No witnesses to the drowning. Blood alcohol elevated. Death recorded as accidental.
Camille kept reading. Then stopped. The autopsy report. She scanned the page. Height. Weight. Cause of death. Bruising. Toxicology. And there it was.
Camille leaned toward the screen. She read the sentence twice. Then reached for her phone.
Before she could send anything, someone knocked on her apartment door. Camille froze. Nobody knew she was working on this. Another knock. Three slow taps.
She closed the laptop, walked quietly toward the door and looked through the peephole. A man stood in the hallway. Grey suit. Older. She didn’t recognise him.
“Who is it?” “Ms. Hart?” Camille didn’t answer. “My name is Daniel Reeves.” Nothing. “I worked as a night porter at the Hôtel Saint-Clair back then.”
Camille’s hand tightened around the door handle. “How did you find me?” “I’ve been trying to find you.” “That doesn’t answer the question.” “No.”
Camille remained behind the locked door. “What do you want?” Silence. Then: “I saw Elena Marceau the night she died.”
Camille stopped breathing. “What did you see?” The man on the other side of the door lowered his voice. “She wasn’t alone.”
By late morning, Alex had showered, changed and consumed enough coffee to feel almost human. Blackthorn looked strange in daylight. The magic of the previous evening was being dismantled piece by piece. Workers carried sections of the glass pavilion across the lawn. White roses lay piled beside service carts. Someone was fishing a champagne flute from the fountain.
Alex walked barefoot through the eastern garden. She needed air. Instead she found Luca. Again.
He was sitting on the seawall. White shirt. Dark trousers. Sunglasses. Coffee.
Alex stopped. “You’re becoming difficult to avoid.” Luca looked over. “Interesting, considering you keep finding me.” “This is my house.” “Technically this is your seawall.” “Even worse.”
He held out the second coffee beside him. Alex looked at it. “You bought me coffee?” “No.” “Then why are there two?” “I like options.” Alex took it. “Thank you.” “You’re welcome.”
She sat beside him. Not too close. Close enough. For a while they looked at the ocean. In daylight, everything felt less sinister. Almost.
“Was Elena pregnant?” Alex asked. Luca removed his sunglasses. “What?” “There’s a comment online.” “Alexandra.” “I know. The internet is full of idiots.” “Yes.” “But sometimes idiots know things.”
He looked at her. “I don’t know.” “Would your father?” “Maybe.” “Ask him.” “No.” Alex turned. “Why?” “Because if Matteo wanted me to know everything, he would have told me everything.”
“That’s a terrible family philosophy.” “Says the woman whose grandmother apparently stores state secrets in her handbag.”
Alex laughed. She didn’t mean to. Luca smiled. Then Alex remembered she was supposed to distrust him. “You’re irritating.” “So I’ve been told.” “Frequently?” “Recently.”
Their eyes met. For one second, the rest of Blackthorn disappeared.
Then Alex’s phone rang. She looked down. Unknown number. She almost ignored it. Something made her answer. “Hello?” Silence. Then a woman. “Alexandra Vale?” “Yes.” “My name is Camille Hart.”
Alex stood. Luca watched her. “I think we need to talk.” “About?” A pause. “Elena Marceau.”
Alex’s grip tightened around the phone. “What about her?” “I’ve been looking into her death.” “Why?” “I’ll explain that when we meet.” “I’m not meeting someone I don’t know because they call me and mention a dead woman.” “Fair.” The woman sounded almost amused. “Then I’ll give you something first.”
Alex waited. Camille looked at the autopsy report on her screen. “Elena wasn’t pregnant.” Alex glanced at Luca. “How do you know?” “Because I have her autopsy report.”
Alex said nothing. “But that’s not why I’m calling.” “What is?”
Camille turned toward the man now sitting at her dining table. Daniel Reeves had both hands wrapped around a cup of coffee he hadn’t touched. “He worked at the hotel the night Elena died.”
Alex’s heartbeat quickened. “Who?” “A witness.” “To what?” Camille looked at Daniel. He nodded. “He saw Elena leave the hotel that night.”
Alex looked toward Blackthorn. Through the windows, she could see Eleanor crossing the library. “Okay.” “She wasn’t alone.”
Alex stopped. “Who was with her?” Camille didn’t answer immediately. “Ms. Hart?” “The witness didn’t see his face.” Alex closed her eyes. Of course. “But he saw something else.” “What?” “He saw Elena get into a car.”
Alex frowned. “My father said she went into the water.” “She did.” “Then what does a car have to do with anything?” “We don’t know yet.”
Alex heard papers moving at the other end. Then Camille said: “The car belonged to your family.”
Alex’s mouth went dry. “Which car?” “A black Mercedes registered to Vale Holdings.” Alex looked through the glass doors. Eleanor was no longer in the library.
“Who was driving?” “We don’t know.” “Then how does this help?” “Because according to the police report, your family’s Mercedes never left the hotel that night.”
Alex said nothing. “And there’s something else.” Of course there was. “What?” “The witness remembers Elena carrying something when she got into the car.” “What?” “A suitcase.”
Alex frowned. “She was leaving?” “It looks that way.” Alex thought about Eleanor. Elena was going to tell me something.
Then Camille said: “Alexandra, Elena wasn’t going to the beach that night.” Alex felt the breeze move across her skin. “She was running away.”
Eleanor Vale stood alone in her dressing room. She had locked the door. Morning light streamed through the windows. In front of her sat the wooden box.
She removed the letters one by one. Elena’s handwriting covered several envelopes. Eleanor ignored them. She removed the hotel receipt, the newspaper clipping and the photographs. Then reached beneath the velvet lining. Her fingers found the edge.
She lifted it. A hidden compartment. Inside was a single envelope. Yellowed with age. Soft at the edges from being handled too many times. On the front, in Elena’s handwriting, were two words. For Eleanor.
Eleanor removed the letter. Three pages. The folds had begun to weaken. She had opened them hundreds of times over the years, usually late at night, usually after promising herself she never would again.
Elena had written it earlier on the day she died. Before the argument. Before the terrace. Before anyone knew she intended to leave.
Eleanor’s eyes moved across words she already knew. Then stopped at the sentence she had spent decades trying to forget.
She sat down. Outside, workers dismantled the remnants of the White Party. A truck carried hundreds of white roses away from Blackthorn.
Eleanor read the sentence again and whispered, “I’m sorry.”
Saint-Clair, French Riviera. That night.
Elena stood beside a black Mercedes in the hotel driveway. A suitcase rested at her feet. Her face was wet with tears. The hotel behind her glowed against the hillside. Music drifted from the terrace.
She looked back once. Waiting.
Footsteps approached. Elena turned. “You came.” A figure stepped from the darkness. Their face remained hidden.
Elena wiped her eyes. “I wasn’t sure you would.” The figure opened the driver’s door. Elena picked up her suitcase. Then stopped.
“There is one thing you need to know before we go.” The figure waited. Elena glanced back toward the glowing hotel. Her expression changed. Fear. “Richard can never know.”
Blackthorn. Present day.
Eleanor reached the final page. There it was. The truth Elena had been trying to tell her on the terrace.
Not a pregnancy. Not an affair. Not even the reason she was leaving.
Something Eleanor had kept from Richard. From Celeste. From Alexandra. From everyone. All these years.
At the bottom of the letter, Elena had written: “If anything happens to me, tell her the truth.”
Eleanor closed her eyes. Her. Not him. Her.
She folded the letter carefully. Then her phone vibrated. Unknown number. A photograph arrived.
Eleanor opened it. She stopped breathing.
It had been taken that morning. Alex. Sitting on the seawall. Beside Luca Laurent. Photographed from somewhere inside Blackthorn’s grounds. Someone was watching them.
A message appeared beneath it. “You had years to tell her.”
Then another. “Now I will.”
Eleanor stood so quickly her cane fell to the floor. For the first time since Elena Marceau died, Eleanor Vale screamed.
“Alexandra!”
End of Episode Three.
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