THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED
Elara felt it happening beneath her fingers, the paper cooling, the glow of surfacing ink dimming with each passing second, whatever mechanism Isabella had built into these pages finally reaching the end of what it could reveal tonight.
One final line rose to the surface before the rest disappeared entirely.
"Trust the man who remembers Blackwood."
Every eye in the room turned slowly toward Lucien.
He didn't look away.
Then, just as the ink began to vanish for good, a second line flickered briefly into view, faint, easy to miss, gone almost as quickly as it appeared.
"...but never trust the one who survived it without regret."
The ink disappeared completely.
The pages, once filled with Isabe