Mr. Gordon replied respectfully, “As you wish, Madam Fisher. I’ll do as you say. I won’t act on my own.”

If Belinda chose mutual destruction, he would accompany her and the others to the netherworld. As an assistant, he was always meant to live for the matriarch assigned to him and die with her. Patrick was an exception in that he had not followed Tiara into death back then, most likely to avenge her.

Belinda still trusted Mr. Gordon very much. As she told Caroline, everyone else might betray