Chapter 2
She was found a hour later.
Echo Gordon walked into the room whistling, smiling.
The sight that met him soon put an end to that.
His niece hanging from the ceiling.
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Skulduggery dropped everything and raced towards Gordon's mansion. Gordon wouldn't tell him what had happened only that it was about Valkyrie. He had sounded like he was about to burst into tears.
He pulled up around the back only to be meet with a dismayed looking Gordon. Echo Gordon glanced upstairs and immediately Skulduggery barged past him and stormed upstairs.
He burst into Valkyrie's room and stopped dead in his tracks. There she was. Rope around her neck.
She had breathed her last. Thrown herself from this mortal coil.
Echo Gordon came up behind him.
"There's a note on the table. It's addressed to you." He said, Skulduggery could hear his voice breaking.
Skullduggery walked over to the table but stopped when he came to her. Wordlessly he took her down, laid her body on the bed and used two gloved fingers to shut her dull eyes.
He turned and picked up the note written in her scruffy scrawl. He opened it.
"Skulduggery," it read. "I am so sorry it came to this. So sorry I did this, did this to you but I had to. It was the only way. You knew this, I knew this. All the time we were wasting was just letting her, Darquess, get stronger. She was so close to breaking through Skulduggery, you have no idea.
I am also sorry that I never told you this, I love you Skulduggery Pleasant. I love you more than anyone else could, and I'm sorry I was such a coward and never told you. I hope one day you find a partner as amazing as me (although I seriously doubt you could, I'm awesome!) one day.
Meet you in hell Skully!
Valkyrie Cain
