Gideons POV
I held Sera tightly against my chest, her weight heavy in my arms as her knees gave out. My mind was reeling, staggering under the sheer weight of what we had just read.
Vince Rauch wasn't her father. He was her uncle—a monster who had murdered his own sister and stolen a infant's entire identity, raising her in the dark just to barter her away like property. The absolute rot in that man's soul made Kane snarl with a savage, bloodthirsty fury, vibrating right through my bones.
Then the realization hit me like a physical blow. The rune.
The entry mentioned the siphoning rune in the mine—the exact same lingering, suffocating pull that had been draining Sera’s energy and causing her distress the moment we stepped foot near Ironridge.
Without hesitation, I snapped open our pa
