Chapter 552 - CHAPTER 551 — A Voice From the Dead

At two five in the afternoon, Alexander De Luca stood before the crimson doorway in the abandoned house at Ashwood Settlement, unable to decide whether the trembling in his hands came from the cold that seeped through the walls or from the voice that had called him home in his father's name. The passage had dimmed since the first encounter, yet a faint red glow still traced the narrow frame, illuminating the dust upon the staircase and the old family signet ring Alexander wore as a reminder of a man whose approval he had spent half his life seeking.