For the first time, his expression cracked.
Nathan reached toward Anna’s wrist.
She pulled back.
“Release Camille.”
Adrian nodded.
Nathan cut the restraints around the nurse’s hands but kept one hand on her shoulder.
“Now the bracelet.”
Anna removed it.
She held it toward Adrian.
He took it carefully.
Then he looked at the tiny key inside the clasp.
Relief moved across his face.
He believed it was real.
“You could have given me everything years ago,” he told me.
“You already had more than enough.”
“Enough is a word used by people who have never been responsible for an empire.”
“You were never responsible for Sterling Global. You were responsible to it.”
He placed the bracelet inside his coat.
“Come with me.”
“Where?”
“To the vault.”
“You said the evidence was here.”
“It is.”
He looked toward the floor.