Chapter 280

Hearing his story had also given her a great idea for Hyde’s backstory. She needed a reason for her main character to have a split personality, she needed something to explain why Hyde existed, and seeing the death of a parent at such a young and impressionable age was exactly what she needed. She had a moment’s hesitation about using what she’d heard, but she justified it by telling herself that she wasn’t using Mason’s story, there was nothing remotely similar about him and Hyde and their childhoods. It was the idea that a child would be exposed to death so early, that he had seen his father murdered before his eyes; that was what she wanted for Hyde. She had filled in the rest of the profile she’d written for Mason, an act of clearing her head so that it wouldn’t interfere with what she was writing, and then she’d updated Hyde’s profile, adding a tragedy in his past, giving him a reason for splitting into two personalities. For the last few hours, she had been deep in the story, goi