#callidusxdectectus

It'd been ten months since Mr Gold had taken in the young woman. He'd cared for her, slowly growing to trust her, and eventually treating her almost like his own child (his only one, after his son had passed away ten years ago). He'd trained her in his ways, in how to con and scam her way up in the world. But now he knew who she really was. Leaning in, he whispered the young woman's ear. "I never loved you."