BURNED EMPIRE
George's hand found mine, gripping tight, and I could feel his pulse as fast as my own through the contact, both of us frozen in the same terrible understanding that whatever this was, it had been sitting quietly beneath everything else this entire time, waiting for the right moment to surface.
"Sam," George said, his voice tight with barely controlled urgency, "why would Selena be monitoring Cora? What possible reason could there be for that?"
"I don't know," Sam said. "But whatever it is, I don't think this is just about visitation rights anymore. I think there's something much bigger happening here, something none of us have fully seen yet. And Mr. Wilton, Miss Gomez — I think you need to