The Silent Pact

RONAN’S POV

When Mom didn't acknowledge it, I said it a little louder, hoping to get her attention.

"We both know how spectacularly that'll crash and burn."

But mom could easily tell what I was trying to do.

The car's tires crunched on the gravel driveway as we approached our family estate, its gothic architecture looming against the star-studded sky like a warning. The stone gargoyles perched on