Chapter 147: Family Secrets

XENOIS

It was a sound of pure agony, high-pitched and desperate, echoing off the walls with enough force to make me wince. But it wasn't my mother's voice - it was Sophia's, and she sounded like she was being tortured.

Thorne and I exchanged a single look before we both moved at the same time, pushing past my startled father and racing toward the source of the screaming. My heart was pounding with a mixture of fear and confusion as we ran through the hallways, following the sounds of distress to their origin.

We burst through the door of the main guest room to find a...