(Isla)
I didn't want to spend another minute in Greyhaven. The box had been hidden in Derek's study since the day he brought me to Ashcrest. I had lived in that home without knowing something connected to my past was beneath the floor. Derek had known it was there the entire time.
"Why did you keep it?"
Derek looked at the records on the table.
"I was told to."
I stared at him.
"By who?"
"The same letter."
That was new. Derek explained that the message hadn't only told him to retrieve me. It had instructed him to keep the box hidden and never open it. He had followed that order even after years passed without another message.
"Why?"
"I thought someone would eventually come for it."
I couldn't understand that. He'd raised me while keeping something found beside me hidden only a f
