Chapter 49: The Hidden Letter
**** Isabelle's POV****
The sky hung gray over the broken remnants of the Montavero estate. What was once a proud, towering manor of elegance and shadows had been reduced to skeletal stone walls and scorched earth. Wind whispered through the shattered windows, rustling memories too long buried.
Isabelle stepped cautiously over fallen beams and moss-covered stone. The place smelled of damp decay and loss, but still, she pressed on. Her boots crunched on cracked tile as she walked through what remained of the foyer. Sunlight streamed through a collapsed ceiling, illuminating dust motes that danced like silent ghosts.
She had not returned here since the night Matteo died. Since the fire. Since the betrayal that tore everything apart.
But something had pulled
