The London safe house had become a place of uneasy silence. Ethan sat at the table, staring at the message on his phone. The Covenant is rising. There are others. Older. More powerful. Aaron Vance's words echoed in his mind like a warning bell. The Genesis Circle had been defeated, but something worse was coming. Kate moved through the room, her footsteps soft on the worn carpet. "Ethan, you've been sitting there for hours. We need to figure out what the Covenant is." Ethan looked up, his eyes hollow. "I've been going through the files. There's no mention of the Covenant anywhere. It's like it doesn't exist." "Maybe it's not in the files. Maybe it's something older. Something Eleanor didn't even know about." Ethan was silent for a long moment. Then he spoke, his voice barely above a w

