Chapter TenFootsteps echoed off the smooth tiles as the three men walked purposefully down the elegant hallway, Stephen leading the way. Hedrek and Caden weren’t the type of men you turned your back towards, but he resisted the urge to look over his shoulder and instead continued striding forwards.
A maid stepped out of a room in front of them and then hurriedly reversed back in to let them pass. The woman had worked at Hammett Hall Manor for several years, and Stephen had spoken to her many times, but this time she averted her eyes; Stephen assumed the brothers made her as nervous as they did everyone else.
There were double doors at the end of the hallway, which opened onto a narrow, spiral staircase. The three men jogged up the steps and then paused at the top.
“What you have to bear
