Chapter 69 — The Letter
The letter was on the desk between them, sealed with the Elder council's stamp, and Nora barely noticed Raphael's face when he opened it. She was still folding a small blanket on the chair, one of Eli's, the one she couldn't bring herself to put away yet.
She looked up when the room went too quiet.
Raphael read the letter in silence, his eyes moving down the page once, then a second time, and something in his shoulders locked into place that she hadn't seen since the day they'd told him about Eli's DNA results.
"What is it?" she asked.
He didn't answer. He set the letter down on the desk, careful, like it might explode if he moved too fast.
She crossed the room and picked it up herself.
Serena's name jumped out first. Then the words after it, laid out in form
