THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED
Silence swallowed the chamber whole.
“Brother,” Gabriel repeated slowly. “Jonathan didn’t have a brother.”
“Not by blood,” Isaac said, his face pale. “By the Covenant. The Founders called each other that, once.
Before…”
He stopped.
“Before what?” Lucien asked.
Isaac didn’t answer right away.
“There were seven Founders,” he finally said.
“Everyone has always believed that.
The Raven, the Queen, the Crown, the Compass, the Key, the Violin, and Jonathan himself.”