Josie povI stood in the garden with Chris’s blood still warm on my hands the world tilting sideways after the scream that had ripped through the evening air and Lily clung to me shaking while the twins slept safely inside unaware of how close the shadows had come again, Alexander knelt beside Chris’s body his face carved with grief and fury as the paramedics confirmed what we already knew and the quiet family gathering that had started as a moment of relief after the global manhunt now felt like the calm before the final storm because the mole was gone but the cost had been higher than any of us could bear, I rocked Lily against my chest whispering that she was safe that Chris had chosen her in the end and the weight of everything we had survived pressed down until my legs felt too heavy to hold us both.The security alert came through on my phone minutes later the feed from the old estate showing Martha’s room empty and the light house arrest we had kept her under suddenly meaningle
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