The Outsider

The cheap tires of the battered cab crunched loudly against the pristine, sweeping gravel driveway of the Holloway estate. Sitting in the back seat, Lyra stared blankly at her phone screen. It remained agonizingly dark. Silas and Milo had stubbornly, deliberately ignored her subsequent calls all morning long. When the line had disconnected on her last attempt, she realized she had absolutely no ch