NORA

“No.” He rested one hand on the banister beside me. “But I know Silas.”

I waited.

“He’ll get her back,” Caleb said, all the humor gone from his voice. “He won’t leave her there.”

There was no hesitation. None. And after what I’d witnessed upstairs, I believed him. Whatever Silas and Maya had started as, it wasn’t that anymore.

I turned slightly toward the upper floor. The word family had become complicated very quickly.

“I don’t want his name.”

Caleb paused. “Viktor’s?”

“If this gets out, if people eventually find out I’m his daughter…” I shook my head. “I don’t want to suddenly become Nora Blackwood.”

Caleb stayed quiet,...