Unsettled Certainty

Kaelen felt it before he understood it.

The estate was too still.

Not the calm, controlled stillness he was accustomed to—but the kind left behind by an absence that didn’t belong. The kind that sharpened instinct and unsettled certainty.

He checked the time.

9:58 a.m.

His jaw tightened.

They should have been back.

Across the table, Roth caught the shift almost immediately. His gaze driftin