THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED
Aurora sat with her hands folded tightly in her lap, staring at nothing, rehearsing some version of courage she hadn't yet found the shape of.
Lucien watched the tunnel walls blur past the window, his reflection faint and unfamiliar against the darkness beyond the glass.
Edmund sat apart from the others, quiet, his expression unreadable, a man still learning how to occupy a room he'd spent thirty years imagining himself entering as an enemy rather than a companion.
Far above them, in the Scottish Highlands, inside a building the world had long since forgotten existed, something ancient stirred back to life.
Dust sifted down from a ceiling untouched by human hands in thirty years, settling ac