Chapter 61
Wintersgate was dark when Michael and Ceinwen arrived, but as soon as they entered, something felt very wrong.
“Do you think we beat them home?” Ceinwen asked.
Michael opened the door to the breakfast room. A candle burned near the windows, which was a surprise. Candles were never used in that room—never anywhere in the old house for fear of fire.
Michael was about to blow it out when other candles suddenly lit all around him. “What the hell?” he murmured.
With the entire room ablaze, William Claude and Stedman entered. William Claude placed the Shang dynasty bronze on the table.
“Look familiar?” he asked Michael with a sly grin.
Michael’s lips pursed. “I knew you were behind its theft. Do you know you’re also responsible for the death of a deputy and others in Idaho?”
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