Lit from the Inside

Ronan's message came three days later.

Not the meeting details — something before that. Something she hadn't expected.

I told Charles this morning. He said what Jude told you: that it was the framework working correctly. That he'd been waiting for me to find the thing that couldn't fit inside the structure. A pause in the message. And then he told me about Nikolai. Not the file — what he knew pers