"And why should I tell you? So you can disturb their peaceful lives? I know how our kind thinks. Some of you...." she gestured vaguely at her brothers, "....would find ways to eliminate them, to ensure they never come after the inheritance."
Her voice turned flat and final.
"As far as you know, they're dead. As far as they know, you're dead too. Let it stay that way. Now go home and handle your business. Find the person who's been poisoning your wife. I'll come by once I'm free."
She waved her hand dismissively, clearly done with this entire conversation.
Long Tian could see in her eyes that she knew more than she was revealing, knew exactly where these children were and what they were doing.
But he also understood that pushing her now, after everything that had just been exposed, would only drive her further away.
"Very well," he said quietly, his shoulders bowing under the weight of these revelations.
