They returned to the Ashgrove manor's sealed east wing nursery three days after Bram's confession, Wren insisting on a more thorough search of the chamber where the first Calloway cradle had originally been discovered months earlier, some instinct telling her they'd overlooked something significant in their initial, hurried investigation.
"We searched this room already," Kane reminded her, watching her run careful hands along the nursery's dust-thick shelving. "Vale's men found the first cradle here, back before any of this had properly begun."
"I know," Wren said. "But we were looking for evidence of my own bloodline then, not considering there might be something else entirely hidden alongside it."
Garrick, examining the floorboards near the room's far wall, suddenly went still. "Wren.
