Elsa "How can you say that when she’s the one who led us to Lucas O’Brian senior in the first place?" Adam challenged, his voice filled with confusion. He didn’t want to believe that someone who had once been helpful could have had ulterior motives. But I shook my head, standing up and pacing, letting my thoughts unravel as I tried to make sense of it all. “She wasn’t trying to help us,” I murmured, almost to myself, then louder, “She must have had her own reasons for leading us to Lucas. She wasn’t guiding us out of loyalty—she wanted us to get rid of him, to make him her pawn or eliminate him.” The memory of Anna’s clear disdain for her father while I was at the Element Pack flooded back, and I felt a strange clarity settle over me. I turned to face Adam and Lucas, piecing it together

