Contract With My Hidden Enemy
The wires had been ripped from her head.
But Julian and Marissa were gone.
But they hadn't left empty-handed, though. Or rather, he had left something behind for me. Resting right on the edge of the open floor hatch, gleaming under the beam of Elias's flashlight, was a small, intricate silver object.
My breath hitched completely. It was a metallic stamp. The unique, custom family seal that had been stamped at the very top of my marriage contract from day one. The symbol from my nightmares, the car crash, the blood, the fire that took my parents. The exact same seal I saw with Silas the night before I was kidnapped at the board meeting.