CHAPTER 52 — THE SHADOW THAT WALKED BACK INTO THEIR LIVES
The storm rolled across the Kane Estate with a rumble that felt almost like a warning—low, deep, and unsettling. Elena stood near the tall windows of Adrian's study, watching the first drops of rain blur the glass. She hugged her arms around herself, not from cold but from the weight of uncertainty pressing down on her. The last two days had been an exhausting tangle of revelations and near-collisions with danger.
Adrian had doubled security. Ward had tightened their internal channels. Marcus was running an investigation that was pulling threads from places Elena never knew existed. And through all of it, something darker stood at the edges—a presence they hadn't yet identified, but everyone could feel.
