Blood and Betrayal
He only saw the bird finally accepting its cage.
“We’ll leave on Monday,” he said. “It will be the event of the season, Lisa. I promise you.”
He led me toward the stairs, his hand resting possessively on the small of my back. I walked beside him, a ghost in a silk slip, carrying the secret of our blood like a concealed weapon.
Toby was coming back. Arthur Vance was waiting in the shadows. And Elaine was waiting with her marble foyer.
But none of them knew the real game. None of them knew that the Little Bird had found the key to the cage, and she was going to use it to burn the whole forest down.