POV: Colt

I found the phone in the study.

It was Ravenna's. She had left it on the desk when she went to take a call from her father, and the screen lit up with a message from Rake before I could look away.

The Originals

I knew the chat. I had been part of it for years. It was where Rake shared jokes and Ravenna shared gossip and Liliana shared whatever cruelty she had thought of that day. I had never paid much attention to it. I had laughed at the messages and moved on.

But something made me pick up the phone now.

I opened the chat.

The...