Chapter 4: The Ghost
The hospital room was too white. Too bright. Too full of questions Celeste couldn’t answer. “Jane Doe” was what they’d […]
The hospital room was too white. Too bright. Too full of questions Celeste couldn’t answer. “Jane Doe” was what they’d […]
Celeste had been driving for six hours when the rain started. She was somewhere in the Berkshires—Massachusetts, maybe Vermont, she’d
Celeste didn’t sleep. She lay in the dark beside David—who’d finally come to bed around midnight, smelling of scotch and
The crystal tumbler slipped from Celeste’s fingers. She watched it fall in slow motion—watched it hit the marble floor of
They thought she was gone. Now she’s back — with a baby, a plan, and the one man they never
Three months later, the Preservation Council sent their answer. Lena stood on the porch of the main house, reading the
They were three miles from Crescent Moon territory when the attack came. Not from the Preservation Council—they were still deliberating,
The bond restoration ritual began at midnight in the same clearing where Lena had just forced an army to kneel.
They met at the border between neutral territory and Crescent Moon land, under a full moon that hung heavy and
Lena saw the message two days into their journey back to Crescent Moon. They’d been traveling at night, moving carefully