If the darkness lurking in the shadows is aimed at Avery Jane, then? Who would understand his relationship with her, who would understand his feelings for her? He thought he had been very discreet, yet her identity must have been exposed. Those who couldn't find any weakness in him would look to those around him, and Avery Jane clearly was the perfect vulnerability.
: "They must meticulously investigate anyone who has come into contact with these candies, even those who have merely seen them, leaving no stone unturned." Joshua Hughes slowly crushed the hard candy as if gripping an ugliest heart, coldly smirking, his voice resembling that of Lord Satan in Inferno: "Not a single one." To dare harm the one dear to his heart, they truly must have been courting disaster.
