Chapter 21 - The Unopened Envelope Marked With A Black Wax Seal
Late that evening, after Lily had fallen asleep in her grand bedroom upstairs, Julian walked into his private study to lock up for the night.
Resting in the center of his mahogany desk was a heavy cream envelope that had not been there when he left the room an hour earlier.
The front of the envelope bore no postage stamp, no mailing address, and no return recipient name whatsoever.
It was sealed with a heavy stamp of dark black wax bearing the ancient Montgomery family crest embossed into the hardened center.
Julian picked up the envelope with steady fingers, breaking the brittle black wax to pull out a single sheet of thick parchment paper.
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Written in his grandfather's distinctive, elegant handwriting were three short sentences that made the hair on the back of Julian’s neck stand up:
“You fought bravely in Washington, my dear grandson, but the real war for the family's survival has not even begun... look inside Lily’s closet behind the third wooden panel before midnight tomorrow.”
