I slid into my car and started the engine, my fingers gripping the steering wheel tighter as my mind kept swirling around one name: Illvar.
Since my military days, I hadn't heard that name surface anywhere. And now, after so many years, it was suddenly back in my life. The look on the Matriarch’s face when I mentioned screamed fear.
I clenched my jaw.
There’s more going on here than I thought...
But I shoved the thought aside and kept driving, my eyes darting between the road and the rearview mirror, lost in a tangle of theories.
Then suddenly, my phone started ringing. The sharp sound jolted me out of my thoughts.
I glanced at the screen. Evelyn.
A chill ran down my spine. She rarely called unless it was important. I picked up immediately.
“Evelyn?”
“Nathaniel—” her voice cracke
