Threads of Trust

Lenora let the sentence sit in the room for a few seconds.

Then she spoke.

"Auntie Clara," said Lenora. "Our mother knew about Nikolai."

"Yes," said Auntie Clara.

"Through Otto," said Lenora.

"Yes. Otto introduced Cora to Nikolai two years before Nikolai died. Not as part of the network. Just as someone Otto believed needed to know each other."

"And our mother knew Ophelia," said Lenora.

Auntie Cl