Chapter 286

• My heel struck the back of Vivian’s knee with deliberate force, sending her crashing to the floor of the legacy hall. She gasped as her palms hit the cold marble, her body buckling under the emotional and physical weight of the moment.
• “Do you know how they died?” My voice sliced through the silence like a scalpel. “Each one of them was stabbed eighteen times. Why eighteen, Vivian? Think. Hard.”
• “No...” her voice trembled. Her face drained of color as her mind fought to suppress the memory.