Aurora's POV
I shouldn't have gone back.
That was the thought sitting at the back of my mind the entire drive to the Sinclair house, quiet, persistent, the kind of thought you hear clearly and choose to ignore because you've already made your decision and talking yourself out of it feels like too much work. Evelyn had told me to return to the mansion. She'd been specific about it. Go back. I'll contact you.
But my father was in that house. Whatever Reginald Sinclair was or wasn't, whatever had been true or performed over the course of my entire life, he was the only version of a father I had. I wasn't ready to walk away from the burial of his wife without seeing him first. I needed to look at him. I needed to see his face with everything Evelyn had told me sitting fresh in my chest and
