A Promise of Ruin

Sylvie was sitting on the bedroom floor when her phone lit up.

She had been there for hours. Back against the bed frame, knees pulled to her chest, staring at nothing. The room was dark. She hadn't turned on a light. Somewhere down the hall Evander was still on the phone, his voice a low steady murmur that she couldn't make herself follow anymore. Four days of phone calls and meetings and leads th