Chapter 67:

Blood Ties Severed

Noah’s

I looked up at the grand, towering staircase of the Silverfang estate. The single lamp in the living room barely reached the ceiling of the high hall, leaving the upper levels draped in shadows. The shadows shifted across the steps as my mother descended. Her silver hair, usually perfect, gleamed under the weak light, and her face was rigid, set in a mask of hard, cold fury.

I hadn’t expected her to be up, much less to appear like this—a vengeful ...