Blood Reckoning

The Mercer Manor felt like a house holding its breath.

Two days since the kidnapping. Two days of police coming and going, phones ringing at all hours, Evander's team spread across the city chasing leads that dissolved into nothing. Two days of Sylvie sitting in rooms without knowing she'd walked into them, of Jonah staring at walls, of the whole house moving at half speed through a grief too larg