THE SISTER
Her name was Lena.
Roger told me on the drive back to Silverwood. Not everything, there was no time for everything and I could see in the careful way he was choosing words that he was someone who had been holding this specific information for three years and was aware that the holding had been its own kind of decision.
"She was placed with a Morryn-adjacent family in the northern territories," he said. "A family that believed they were protecting a child from a pack conflict. They did not know her bloodline."
"Cavendish placed her," I said.
"Yes. But not with Fenn's knowledge. Cavendish kept her existence concealed from everyone including her own allies." He paused. "She was the insurance policy."
"Insurance against what?" I said.
"Against the anchoring bloodline ending,
