Chapter 19 - The LetterA year passed.
Life became peaceful.
Almost normal.
Then one afternoon, a letter arrived.
There was no return address.
Arthur opened it carefully.
Inside was a single sheet of paper.
Only one sentence had been written.
You think Julian and Elise were acting alone.
Arthur's blood turned cold.
He read it again.
Then again.
At the bottom was a symbol he didn't recognize.
Leo entered the room.
"Grandpa?"
Arthur immediately folded the letter.
"What is it?"
"Nothing."
But Leo studied his face.
Arthur had spent his entire life protecting people by keeping secrets.
He wasn't sure anymore if secrets created safety.
Or danger.
That night, Arthur placed the letter inside a locked drawer.
He stood at the window.
The ocean was dark beneath the moon.
Far beyond the shoreline, a light moved across the water.
Arthur watched it disappear.
Someone had survived the destruction of the old plan.
Someone who knew about the Sterling family.
May you like
Someone who had waited.
And now someone was watching them.
