Truth or death

Previously

…Eleanor felt a pang of sympathy for Marcus, but her mind was already racing ahead. Two truths revealed. Two lives burdened by secrets. But the locket… it still nagged at her. Who was in the photographs? And why was Addams so tense? The game was far from over. The shadows in the room seemed to deepen, holding not just the fear of death, but the chilling promise of exposure. Eleanor knew, with a certainty that settled deep in her gut, that the greatest danger wasn’t the voice in the walls, but the secrets they carried, and the people who held them. And she had a gnawing suspicion that the most dangerous secret of all belonged to the one person who had remained silent.