Chapter 10 · free to read
Consecrated ground. The one room in the Yun mansion my husband could not enter, and the one room the sixth name would not leave.
I had come to that step pitying him. I stood up from it with the pity burned out.
Absolution has a threshold. So does sanctuary. They are cut from the same stone.
Six of ten. And it had needed no ghost at all. It had needed only knowing what a frightened man wants more than he wants safety.
Artwork and narration generated with AI.