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CHAPTER 41: Renaud’s Sleepless Guard
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2026-04-11 16:13:46I woke up because the house changed.
Not the usual nighttime settling. Not a pipe complaining or a window flexing in the cold. This was the kind of quiet that feels arranged—like someone had asked the estate to hold its breath.
I sat up slowly, sheets sliding off my shoulder. The clock on the bedside table glowed past two. My throat was dry, my mind still running in circles around Sabine’s warning from earlier.
Including your brother.
She’d said i
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