LEGACY IN SHADOWS
Calla’s POV
Faye didn’t sleep on the jet. Not really. She drifted in and out of something that looked like rest, her head on my lap, but her fingers kept twitching like they were still bound. I stroked her hair the way I used to when she had nightmares as a child, whispering nonsense and lullabies neither of us believed in anymore.
Outside the cabin window, the stars bled into morning, but all I could think about was the name burned into the last page of the Blood Ledger.
Elias Everhart.
Not Tobias. Not Lillian. Elias.
A name that shouldn’t have existed. A man who’d supposedly died before I was born.
But his name was listed in the ledger with fresh account movements and encrypted codes beside boardroom initials, shell company transfers, and a signature next to Tobi
