Cecil never left the picture; she had been in it all along. She wanted everything I had, and all she had done had been geared towards getting it. She wanted me dead but would also kill Oliver if she couldn't have him. People like her were insane and had no moral code; they would gladly trample on what they couldn't have, just as she was doing now. She probably had the key to this apartment and had given it to Gail to sneak in, carry out his mission, and sneak out.

It was her all those years. She had ordered these men to kill me; she was responsible for Elena's...