Chapter 12 - Elias Questions Everything He Once Believed
Elias moved through the shadows of the ground-floor gallery like a ghost, his footsteps completely silent on the hardwood.
He reached the rear mudroom leading out toward the gardens, checking the heavy biometric lock on the steel door.
It was uncompromised, meaning the intruders were attempting to enter through the conservatory glass roof upstairs.
Smart, but they didn't know that Elias had installed reinforced ballistic glass after Rosalind’s passing.
He climbed the back service stairs toward the second-floor library, positioning himself near the dark corridor junction.
His mind raced back to his late wife, wondering if Rosalind had known more about Arthur Vance’s murder than she let on.
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She had spent hours in that greenhouse, writing in leather journals that Elias had locked away unread after her funeral.
If those journals contained proof of corruption within his own syndicate, it explained why someone wanted Adeline silenced.
