Chapter 5 Cold Encounters
The next morning greeted Isabella with gray skies and an eerie chill that crept through the library like a warning. The warmth she’d felt the day before—the music in the walls, the journal in the archives—had faded into something more cautious, colder.
She arrived early, the echo of her heels muted by the thick rugs lining the halls. Mr. Elias was nowhere to be seen, which wasn’t unusual. But something felt different.
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