CHAPTER 4: THE PRICE OF SILENCE

Sirens.
Real ones this time.
Not controlled. Not owned.
Outside, red and blue lights painted Ravenshore in truth.
Officers entered—different ones.
State level.
Untouchable.
Grayson tried to speak, to command, to reclaim something—
But no one listened anymore.
Not the guests.
Not the police.
Not even his own family.
“Dad…” Paige whispered, trembling. “What do we do?”
Grayson had no answer.
Because for the first time in his life—
He had nothing left to buy.
Across the room, Dominic knelt beside Harper.
Carefully. Gently.
Like she wasn’t broken—but something worth saving.
“You stayed on the line,” he said quietly.
Harper blinked through the blood, her voice barely there.
“You came.”
May you like
Dominic met her eyes.
“I said I would.”