Chapter 405

Finnian's POV

The house was empty when I got there.

Father never left his study unlocked. That was the first rule I learned as a boy. The second was that the room belonged to him the way a weapon belongs to the hand that holds it. You did not enter without being called. You did not touch the desk. You did not ask what lived inside the drawers.

I called anyway.

No answer.

The key was where it had a