Chapter 23 The Smile
POV: Isolde
I lie on my back and look at the ceiling and wait for sleep to do something useful.
It does not.
The room is quiet. The house is quiet. Somewhere below a door settles in its frame and then nothing again, just the particular thickness of a building holding its own weight in the dark. I h...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Blood-Scribe
2. Chapter 2 The Wrong Folder
3. Chapter 3 The Gap
4. Chapter 4 Cold Eyes
5. Chapter 5 The Proposal
6. Chapter 6 Twelve Hours
7. Chapter 7 Yes
8. Chapter 8 What Everyone Sees
9. Chapter 9 Rules
10. Chapter 10 The West Wing
11. Chapter 11 Petra's Letter
12. Chapter 12 Adjustment
13. Chapter 13 Lord Vauss
14. Chapter 14 Sorin Watches
15. Chapter 15 The House Knows Her
16. Chapter 16 Vauss's Second Meeting
17. Chapter 17 The Ring
18. Chapter 18 Night Walk
19. Chapter 19 Claimed
20. Chapter 20 The Cost of a Name
21. Chapter 21 How He Knew
22. Chapter 22 Maren Thast
23. Chapter 23 The Smile
24. Chapter 24 Tev
25. Chapter 25 The Research Accelerates
26. Chapter 26 The Missing Family
27. Chapter 27 What She Is
28. Chapter 28 The Truth About Her Father
29. Chapter 29 Four Names
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