127. The Reminder (Jude's POV)

Jerry was overjoyed and willing to work for me; the promised sum of money was surely a help in bringing out his enthusiasm. He also went from calling me Jude to Mr. Lennister, so that was that.

I asked him to wait for me to message him when I got a new email address, then he could send me everything he found regarding the diaries. Not only because I feared he would track us in the future—if he hadn't already done so—but so that I would be liberated from talking directly with him again.

I wanted to get my hands on the diaries, curious as hell what was going on with Lesly's supposed mother, at the same time fearing what I would find.

It was one thing to get information about some sadist that had been running around, another if it was the birth mother of the little crow. Additionally, Lesly wasn't clearheaded enough to simultaneously learn these new updates with me, but I had become the sieve that filtered everything she would learn eventually.