Chapter 9 - Grace Comforts The Girls Amid Escalating Mansion Tension
Upstairs in the nursery, Grace sat on the plush velvet rug with Olivia, Sophie, and Nora surrounding her.
She held a brightly illustrated storybook open in her lap, reading in a soft, soothing tone to keep them calm.
“Is Daddy going to catch the bad man who made Mommy go away?” four-year-old Nora whispered anxiously.
“Your daddy is the strongest man in New York, sweetheart; nothing bad is ever going to touch you again,” Grace promised gently.
Olivia rested her head against Grace’s shoulder, a faint, rare smile touching her lips for the first time in fourteen months.
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The heavy, suffocating silence that had haunted the mansion since Isabelle’s murder was finally dissolving into hope.
Yet, down in the armory, the air was thick with the scent of impending violence and absolute reckoning.
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