Chapter Sixteen: The Departure and then Divide

She didn’t sleep.

Even after the candles were extinguished and the house drifted into quiet, Isabelle sat upright in her bed, fully dressed, her heart pounding like a war drum buried beneath polished floors.

Duval’s words haunted her.

Will you bleed for it? Or break it?

She thought of her mother...

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