By the time Clara returned to her room, her thoughts were completely tangled. The conversation she had overheard downstairs refused to leave her mind.
Victoria's voice,Alexander's questions,the tension between them,the warning. "Some truths destroy more than they save."
The words followed her through the silent hallways and into her bedroom. After closing the door behind her, Clara leaned against it and released a long breath.
For weeks, she had convinced herself that Alexander and Victoria were on the same side. That whatever secrets surrounded the Knight family, they were protecting them together.
Tonight had changed that. The exchange she witnessed hadn't felt like a conversation between allies,It felt like a confrontation.
A battle neither wanted to finish. And somehow that realiz
