A Calculated Silence

Sylvia's POV

The headline stared back at me from the screen of my phone…Declan Hale was dead.

The weight of it should have hit me harder, but instead, I felt calmness settle over me. I had known this was coming.

Declan Hale had been a liability for too long, and Madam Cordelia Lancaster didn’t tolerate liabilities. She had silenced him before he could open his mouth in court and spill every sordid