Chapter 7 Ghost Protocol part 1

Daniel Hawthorne’s POV

I couldn’t sleep. I just sat in the study and watched the fire die, the photograph still in my hands.

The timestamp keeps glaring up at me: April 3, 2:14 a.m. Three weeks after Lydia’s supposed death.

Nora curls on the couch, half-awake, Pickles pressed against her side. When...