Chapter 97

That night, Harper recalled, a storm raged outside, rain lashing against the windows, wind howling like a tormented beast. She couldn’t sleep. Insomnia was par for the course whenever she returned to her childhood home, re-decorated beyond recognition by Alyson, a woman she refused to call her stepmom. Harper tossed and turned in bed. She missed her cousin Elodie, missed the holidays spent with Elodie’s parents. She still couldn’t believe that Uncle Raymond and Aunt Madeline were gone, and now even Elodie had disappeared. Gabriel must know where Elodie was, but he was extremely tight-lipped about it. Finally, Harper got up and went to the kitchen to get a drink of water. Light seeping out from under the closed study door caught her attention, and as she approached, she heard muffled voices coming through the gap underneath. Inside, her father Cyrus confronted Sebastian. ‘I handed over the chairman position of Northstar to you, and now you want the mansion too? Sebastian, you’re insatia