THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED
One none of them had ever heard spoken in connection to him before, a Founder surname, old and weighted, attached to a full identity, complete with a birth record predating the fire by several years, an identity someone had clearly constructed and hidden away with the same careful precision Jonathan had used to hide everything else across this long, layered mystery.
Lucien read it silently.
Then again.
"I don't understand," he said finally, his voice unsteady. "Two names. Two identities. Which one is real?"
"Maybe both were," Elara said softly. "Maybe you were born one person and became another the night everything changed."