Chapter 12
The silver token became a problem only because everyone kept treating it like one.
I considered destroying it.
Nora asked:
“Why?”
I frowned.
“Because look what it caused.”
She shook her head.
“People caused that.”
Fair.
We placed it in the Whitmore archive beside Elise’s letter.
Context attached permanently.
No future Sterling relative could hold up the object without the refusal sitting beside it.
That mattered.
Old families love artifacts because artifacts cannot argue.
Letters can.
Elise could.
Even dead.
The Sterling elders eventually acknowledged Richard’s version was false.
Not publicly.
We did not need theater.
Inside the families.
Enough.
Adrian never apologized.
Also useful.
May you like
Not everyone evolves.
He remained outside Whitmore.
