The Heiress he never met
she said, and Wren, after a moment's hesitation, began.
She told her everything — the patent, the letters, the sixty-five years of erasure, her own mother's silence, Isabella's flight and eventual return, the archive project now underway with Dr. Okafor's team. Ruth listened without interrupting, and when Wren finally finished, the silence on the line stretched long enough that Wren began to worry the call had dropped.