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Chapter 42: The Woman Who Knew Elena
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Nobody spoke.Maraine's words remained between them.Someone from Kael's family took your father.Lyra looked at Kael.For once, she didn't know what she wanted to see in his face.Shock.Anger.Denial.Anything would have been easier than the silence he gave her.Kael slowly lowered his sword.“Who?”Maraine shook her head.“I don't know.”Lyra let out a humorless breath.“Of course.”Maraine looked at her.“I know what it sounds like.”“It sounds like every answer I've received since this started.”Lyra stepped away.“My father was taken by someone from his family, but nobody knows who. My mother disappeared, but nobody knows where she went. Darian is my uncle, but nobody knows what side he's on.”She looked at Kael.“And somehow your family keeps appearing in the middle of everything.”Kael didn't defend himself.That surprised her.“I won't lie to you,” he said.Lyra folded her arms.“Then don't.”“I don't know what my family did.”“But you know there are secrets.”“Yes.”“How man
THE LUNA HE TOOK FOR GRANTED Chapter 42: The Woman Who Knew Elena
The forest had gone completely silent.Lyra stared at the woman standing in front of her.She had Elena's eyes.That was enough to make Lyra's entire body go cold.But the woman wasn't Elena.At least, that was what she had said.“Who are you?”The woman looked at her for several seconds before answering.“My name is Maraine.”Lyra's brow furrowed.“Maraine?”“Yes.”“You knew my mother.”Maraine's gaze softened.“I knew Elena better than most people ever did.”“Then tell me where she is.”The woman looked away.“I can't.”Lyra stepped closer.“You just gave me a letter with my mother's handwriting.”“I did.”“You knew she was alive?”Maraine hesitated.“I knew she was alive when I last saw her.”Lyra's heart jumped.“When?”“Twenty-three years ago.”The hope that had risen inside Lyra collapsed almost immediately.“So you don't know where she is now.”“No.”Lyra stared at her.“You expect me to believe that?”“I expect nothing from you.”Maraine's voice remained calm.“I came because
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The first blow against the cellar door made dust fall from the ceiling.Lyra flinched.Another strike followed.“They’re coming through,” Rowan said.Kael looked toward the narrow staircase.“There has to be another exit.”Aldren nodded.“There is.”He crossed the cellar and pushed against a section of stone behind the shelves. Nothing happened.He pushed harder.A hidden panel shifted.Cold night air slipped through the opening.“Go.”Mara grabbed Lyra's hand.They moved quickly.Kael stayed behind with Rowan and Aldren until everyone had passed through the narrow passage.Then the cellar door above them splintered.Voices filled the room.“Find them!”Kael pulled the hidden panel shut.Darkness surrounded them.They continued through the passage until it opened into the forest behind the house.Everyone emerged beneath the trees.For several seconds, nobody spoke.Then Lyra pulled the photograph from her coat.“Selene.”Kael looked at her.“You're certain?”“I saw her at Riverhaven.
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The cellar seemed to hold its breath.Lyra read the sentence again.If you have found the second key, then Darian has already failed to stop you.Her fingers tightened around the letter.“How did my mother know?”No one answered.Kael took the photograph from her carefully and studied it.Elena stood beside a man near the old border house. They looked younger, but there was no mistaking the place.The man beside Elena was not Aldren.Not Darian.And not anyone Lyra recognized.“Who is he?” Rowan asked.Aldren stared at the photograph.His silence lasted too long.“You know him.”Aldren finally nodded.“Yes.”Lyra stepped closer.“Who?”Aldren turned the photograph over.There was nothing else written beneath the message.“He was one of the last people I trusted before Mooncrest changed.”“That doesn't tell me anything.”“He was a member of my council.”Lyra looked at him sharply.“A Shadow Guard?”“No.”Aldren's voice dropped.“Before the Shadow Guard existed.”The room became still.
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The room went silent after Mara's confession.Darian was Elena's brother.Lyra stared at the birth record again, as though the ink might rearrange itself if she looked long enough.Lyra Elena Voss.Her mother's name.Her uncle's name.A family she had never known she belonged to.“Why didn't my mother ever tell me about him?”Mara lowered her gaze.“Because by the time she understood what Darian had become, she was already afraid of him.”Lyra's fingers tightened around the edge of the table.“Become?”Mara hesitated.“He wasn't always dangerous.”“That isn't an answer.”“No,” Mara admitted. “It isn't.”Kael stood beside Lyra, silent but attentive.Aldren was still holding the silver key.The tiny letter K caught the light.Lyra noticed the way he was staring at it.“You said you've seen another key like this.”Aldren looked at her.“Yes.”“Where?”“On Elena.”Lyra's breath caught.“When?”“Years ago. Before she disappeared.”He placed the key carefully on the table.“She wore it arou
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For several seconds, nobody moved.Mara's words seemed to settle over the room, heavier than the dust hanging in the old house.Darian wasn't just someone your mother knew. He was your mother's brother.Lyra stared at her.“Her brother?”Mara nodded slowly.“My mother had a brother?”“You had an uncle,” Mara corrected. “Darian Voss.”Lyra looked down at the documents spread across the table.Elena Voss.Darian Voss.The same surname.She had seen it before, but somehow the truth had been hiding in plain sight.Kael stepped closer, his eyes fixed on the birth record.“Why would Elena warn her against her own brother?”Mara's expression tightened.“That is the question I hoped we wouldn't have to answer tonight.”A cold silence followed.Aldren picked up the silver key.His thumb brushed over the tiny K engraved into its head.“I've seen this before.”Lyra immediately turned toward him.“Where?”Aldren didn't answer at once.He looked toward the far wall of the house instead.“There was
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