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Chapter Thirty

Author: Delancyquin
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-11 09:18:05

Mira’s P.O.V.

The feather lay in the box like it had been placed there with care... almost reverence. It wasn’t just any feather. It was glossy, inky black, with a faint shimmer that caught the light when I moved.

It felt wrong to even be near it.

Luca didn’t touch it again after that first glance. He shut the lid slowly, as if closing it might keep whatever meaning it carried from seeping into the room.

“What does it mean?” I asked, my voice low.

His eyes stayed on the box. “It’s a marker.”

“A marker for what?”

He finally looked at me, and the answer in his gaze made the hairs on my arms rise. “Death.”

Eliza swore under her breath. Marco and Theo exchanged a quick glance but said nothing.

I gripped the edge of the table to steady myself. “Whose?”

“That’s the problem,” Luca said. “It could be anyone’s. But she sent it here, to us… which means she wants me to think it’s yours.”

The air seemed to grow heavier, pressing against my lungs.

“This is her way of telling
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