Avery's POV:
Raine's boots snapped a dead branch outside the greenhouse.
The manor had gone utterly silent. In that deathly quiet, the snap of the branch made every Linton go pale.
Wind whipped loose snow around the abandoned greenhouse at the Linton manor, and the tension became suffocating.
Raine's golden slit pupils locked on the freshly opened pit in front of him.
The wolf guards around him exchanged uneasy looks. No one dared make a sound.
The hole was large enough to hold an adult body.
It was completely empty.
There was no corpse, no blood, nothing at all.
Kelly Linton quickly forced down her panic.
Keeping her hands hidden inside her sleeves, Kelly moved her fingers through a rapid sequence of arcane gestures, activating the remnants of the illusion ward as she tried to e
