Ardyn's POVMaybe Caelum hadn’t found me by accident. Maybe he had been looking for me all along.The thought followed me all the way home.I barely remembered the drive back. I remembered the road, the trees passing in the darkness, the cold air coming through the window, but everything else seemed blurred. Revyn's photograph was still in my hand.I had folded it carefully before leaving, almost afraid that if I looked at it too long, the little girl in the picture would disappear.She didn't.She was still there.Small. Thin. Her hair tied badly at the back. Standing beside a woman whose face I had spent years trying to remember.My mother.I had spent my whole life believing she died in an accident.That was the story I had been given.That was the story I had built my childhood around.And now Revyn had looked me in the eyes and told me Caelum ordered her death.I couldn't make those two things exist together.The mansion appeared through the trees, bright windows glowing against
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