After a while, a steady routine took hold. Isiah disappeared for entire days to gather information alongside Eijar, leaving Lexie, Ciel, and Heigl behind at the abandoned estate.
Initially, the investigation phase was supposed to take only a few days according to plan, yet the process dragged on much longer than anticipated.
Isiah uncovered a wealth of new details, but he chose to keep them strictly to himself. Naturally, his persistent silence eventually drove Heigl to question his motives.
Lexie, on the other hand, focused on making their living conditions as bearable as possible. She cleaned two rooms in the decaying house, reserving one for herself and the other for the boys. However, as the days bled together, she noticed that Isiah rarely stepped foot inside the estate at all.
He preferred to remain outside in the cold shadows, his true intentions completely opaque to her.
