Dawn gazed away and licked her lips. When she looked at him, she found him staring at her without blinking his eyes. "Cole you are too young. Let me handle this."

"No, I am not," he replied. "Just let me know who that man was." She had kept so many secrets from him to protect him and he respected it, but this was something he had to know, and urgently.

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Dawn knew that her brother would feel bad if she didn't spill it out. "It was Helena, Anne and Jason who murdered our father."

A rumble formed in his chest. His eyes widened as his fists clenched. Those bastards were right in front of his eyes and he never came to know. He pounded the sofa regretting the missed opportunities.

"Anne was killed in the prison, we don't know by whom," she hid it from her brother because she didn't want to talk to him about her husband being a sorcerer. "The last we heard of Helena was that she was plunged into a lifetime of misery and madness after Anne was killed. They say that she had to be taken to a mental asylum where she is kept isolated in a room. She has become a threat to anyone who goes near her because she attacks them." She took a deep breath. "As for Jason, he has gone underground. But the moment he surfaces, we will pounce on him."

"You will give that man to me Dawn," he said, clenching his teeth.

"I will," Dawn reassured him.

Cole rested back on the sofa and brought his forearm to cover his face. "This is all so twisted, Dawn."

Dawn walked up to him and removed his hand from his face. She didn't even know where to start. It was all too twisted for her to understand. If only her father wasn't a womanizer, if only Gayle hadn't planted Helena, if only Lily wasn't such a glutton, if only their mother was still alive, if, if, if… "I understand Cole, but we have moved on, right?" She held his hand in hers. "We have come a long way and at this point of time, we can't stay in the past. We have suffered a lot, and I want us to live happily. That can only happen if we move forward." She cupped his face, "Please Cole you have to promise me that."

Cole held her hands on her face and nodded. "I will try sis, not sure how much I can handle."

Dawn smiled and then hugged him. "That's a start!" When she pulled away she asked, "Do you remember the keys I was asking about?"

"Yes," he replied and dug his hands beneath his collar to take the chain out on which the keys were hanging. "What about it?" he asked. He examined the key, which he had been wearing around his neck ever since his father had given it to him.

Dawn held it close and narrowed her eyes to see the number engraved on it. "I think that this key is of a bank locker, which father had kept as a secret. Just before he died, he gave this key to you. Helena and Anne were after him to give the key, but perhaps he had anticipated their attack, so he acted in haste and gave this key to you."

Cole raised his eyebrows. He took the keys back from her. "Girl, there are so many banks in this town. Which one do you think this belongs to?"

"I have asked Daryn to check it for us. It will take time, but as soon as he finds out, we will go to check it!"

Cole nodded. He couldn't imagine what would be there in the locker. He stashed the key back beneath his shirt.

Dawn tousled his hair. "Go and take a bath. You stink a lot!"

Dawn smiled. His mood was lighter. "I will be back in ten minutes. I hope there's food for me."

"There is!" she replied with a grin.

Over the next two days, Dawn moved a case in the court in which she demanded execution of Bree, Niall and Jason for plotting to kill Erika Trey. Erika's sister jointly slapped the litigation against them. Dawn had gone to show the papers to Mr. Higgins. "I will fight tooth and claw to bring them to heel!"

Higgins had begged her to leave Bree, but she had only hurled the papers on his face and come back.

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Dawn resumed work at the office. She came to know from Cara that Lily Wyatt's health had gone further bad. With winters approaching quicker than expected, Lily wasn't coming out of the house. Cara had enquired from the servants and she came to know that Lily mostly remained confined to her bedroom. So whatever necessary documents were supposed to be signed, Cara used to take them to the Wyatt House and get them signed by her.

"She has become pretty fragile Ma'am," said Cara one day. "Not only that she barely speaks. The last I saw her, she was browsing through the old albums."

Dawn looked at her with nonchalance. Ignoring the topic, she received the documents and started checking them. Cara pursed her lips and turned to leave.

While she was checking the documents, her phone buzzed.

"Daryn, how are you?" she asked, picking it up in one ring.

"I think I found the bank you were looking for," he said. "The Branch Manager of the bank is a new guy who happens to know Alvarez too and he said that your father had opened an account with them a long time back, but he never used it. I suspect that Luke used the same account in his last days."

Dawn stilled. "If he is a new employee, how would he know about my father?"

"He called the retired Branch Manager who told him about Luke Wyatt. Well, the thing is that this is the only bank, which is still operational under his name. All others were transferred in the name of Lily Wyatt. Perhaps because Lily didn't know that this one existed."

"How can this be? Anne must have definitely told her about the keys!" Dawn countered in order to eliminate her suspicion.

"No way! Anne had hidden that she had murdered her brother along with Helena. How could she say anything about the keys? And on what basis she would have mentioned? Lily would have become suspicious immediately." Daryn denied her doubts.

Dawn took in a deep breath. "That is possible!"

"So do I come to pick you up now or you want to go later?" he asked.

"I want to go there with Cole. So come over to pick me up and then we will go to get Cole. The keys are with him."

"Okay!" said Daryn and disconnected the phone.

Dawn was too excited after that. Lily Wyatt's health was forgotten. She picked up her purse, her fur jacket and rushed out of the office. She went to stand in front of the main door much to every employee's amusement. Dawn felt that her heart would jump out of its ribcage when Daryn informed her. His car pulled up in front of her and she jumped in without waiting for the driver to open the door for her. She had already sent a message to Cole.