“Seraphina…”My mother’s voice came from inside the vault.“It’s time you knew why I left you.”I couldn’t move.My mother’s voice.After all these years.After every grave, every photograph, every story I’d been told about her disappearance.She was alive.Or at least, she had been alive when this recording was made.Lucien reached for me.I stepped away.“Don’t.”His hand fell.Victor watched me with an unreadable expression.Mara looked like she was about to collapse.Voss, however, was smiling.“You finally opened it.”I turned toward him.“What is inside?”He didn’t answer.The vault door opened wider.A cold white light spilled across the floor.Then my childhood memories returned.Not one.All of them.At once.I dropped to my knees.“Seraphina!”Lucien rushed toward me.But the moment his hand touched my shoulder, the world disappeared.I was five years old.I was sitting on my mother’s lap.She was brushing my hair.“Mommy?”“Yes, sweetheart?”“Why does Daddy keep locking the
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