Moonlit Secrets
Inside, the mansion felt hollow, each room echoing with memories of footsteps that had vanished.
For days, Xander had moved restlessly through the empty halls, haunted by the silence. Sleep eluded him, and food seemed unnecessary. He searched the house, as if hoping to find something lost—her laugh in the kitchen, the scent of lavender, the warmth of a hand he had only truly held in dreams.
It was in his study, still cloaked in the last traces of night, when the knock came. Mira, the estate’s night nurse, stood in the doorway, pale and worried, holding a sealed envelope. A single blue ribbon tied it together.
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