“Okay, so it’s really funny that you ask that because I saw this post just the other day.” She ushers me over to her desk, opens the Hidden forum on one of her screens, and clicks around until she finds what she’s looking for.

I read over her shoulder. It’s a detailed theory that Nora Montaigne is actually one of the Hidden and that the success she’s had with her company is because she’s using their secret technology.

I wonder if this could be possible. Could she be Prometheus? No. She can’t be helping the Families if Kor thinks she’s working against them.

And then it clicks. I gasp and grab on to Georgie’s chair for stability. Leo, who captured me at Carnevale—Rafe had called him Leonardo de Montaigne. And he had said there was already one traitor in Leo’s family.

Nora Montaigne.

They have to be related. Of course Leo and Bram weren’t working for the Inquisitors; they must have actually been working for Oz Tech all along. And Leo’s talk of antimatter and making Rafe believe it was the Inquisitors would avert suspicion from his sister.

Any lingering doubt I have dissipates. Izzy works for Oz Tech and tried to warn me about something she saw. Nora Montaigne used to be a Maker and has been doing genetic testing related to Sires. And Nora’s brother tried to kidnap me for being a Sire. Oz Tech must be responsible for the other Sire abductions as well.

I have no idea how to explain any of this to Georgie, but she seems happy to let me use her computer to deal with it on my own, and she heads to the common room to play with Bast.

After I recover the pieces of my skull left from having my mind blown, I try to come up with a game plan.

I absolutely must talk to the Families. I need to tell them that the Makers have their photo, share my suspicions about Nora Montaigne, and see if they can help me find Hypatia.

And despite the strength of my Oz Tech theory, I’m still filled with dread from the absolute assurance that both Michael and Rafe had about the Inquisitors being the ones who took Hypatia. I need to understand why they think they have proof of that and confirm that the Families have nothing to do with it.

Kor doesn’t answer, which makes sense for this time on a Sunday. So I try my mom.

As soon as I connect, I get straight to the point. “Mom, I need to tell you—the Makers have a picture of some of the members of the Inner Circle, and they think you all are behind the recent abductions.”