The London safe house had become a tomb of revelation.
Ethan sat at the table, Arthur Vance's journal open before him. The words burned into his mind: The Covenant is not a single organization. It is a network. A network of families... The Crosses. The Drakes. The Morgans. Each one more powerful than the last. Ethan, you are not just a Cross. You are the heir to the most powerful family in the Covenant.
Kate moved through the room, her footsteps soft on the worn carpet. "Ethan, you've been staring at that journal for hours. We need to figure out what this means."
Ethan looked up, his eyes hollow. "It means my family has been part of the Covenant for generations. My father. My grandfather. Everyone I thought I knew was part of this."
"Not everyone. Your father tried to stop it. He creat
