Chapter 84 – Isabelle’s Mother’s Revenge
****Isabelle’s POV****
The mansion was quieter than usual. Too quiet.
It wasn’t the silence of peace but that of secrets, the sort that lay like smoke in the air, choking yet unseen. Isabelle felt it as soon as she entered the west wing, where the family archives and ancestral chambers were kept. Since the chaos of Luca’s twin’s arrival and his subsequent poisoning, tension had not just lingered—it had thickened, like blood congealing after a wound.
Her steps echoed down the marble corridor. The sconces on the walls flickered, casting shadows that twisted and elongated, as if mocking her. She pressed her hand against the cool surface of the stone wall for grounding, but her pulse didn’t settle. She had learned to recognize this feeling in her ch
