Silent Pursuit

~Kaelen~

I saw it for exactly what it was.

The dinner. Nathaniel. The seating. The hand-holding performance Daphne had put on at the table like she was auditioning for a role she had never been cast in. All of it — every carefully arranged piece of it — was a response to the night Raina had stayed in my house. Evelyn had seen what she had seen and had drawn the conclusion anyone with functioning e