The silence on Sebastian's end lasted only a second.
Then he closed whatever he had been reading and dropped it on a desk, the sound of it slamming coming through the phone so clearly it almost made her flinch. Was he angry at her or at Nick?
"That doesn't change anything for me, my love," he said. "What matters is that we know exactly who he is now. We know what kind of monster we've been dealing with."
He took a slow breath. "And now we know he planned all of this long before yesterday, and it's time we put him down."
Viola heard his words, but she didn't feel reassured enough that it truly didn't matter. For a moment she wanted to insist that Nick hadn't done what they thought he'd done, but then she dropped it completely, for now.
However, as though sensing her doubts and misgivings, Sebastian said again, "It doesn't matter to me, I want you to always keep that in mind, but I will kill Nick with my own hands and put him to rest."
