---- "Dont be ridiculous, theres no room for both of us here.


    Married couples sleep separately..." "T dont want to, I wont, I dont care.


    Then they can just get rid of whatever takes up space." Katherine scoffed yfullyof course, she was going to move in with him, she just enjoyed making him work for it.


    Suddenly, her gazended on the chest again.


    Blliot, is there any way to get back that ne I gave you to pay off that debt?" she asked, and she felt him tense.


    "Why do you want it?" He lifted his head, meeting her gaze through the mirror with a questioning expression.


    "I think its the key to opening thisit belonged to my mother," she pointed at the round indentation that had appeared on the surface "T still have it stored away.


    Do you even know what that ne is and what it contains?" "No, I thought it was just some trinket Rosse inherited," she replied, unconcerned.


    Elliot sighed, pressing a kiss to her neck with tenderness.


    "Baby, that was the thing your father used to ckmail me.


    I dont know how, but that ne recorded the only time I ever lost control and transformed into a lycan," he admitted, watching her eyes widen in shock ---- "As you saw, ournds border each other, and I nearly killed him.


    1 showed him mercy when I regained my senses, and then he showed up with that cheap little ne to ckmail me, iming he had more evidence." "T dont believe it," Kath thought aloud.


    "I searched everything in the house and that old mansion.


    I think the ne belonged to my mothershe must have shown him how it worked, and he used it to store your secret and ckmail you." In the end, they were piecing together the truth, drawing closer to the real story.


    Elliot went to retrieve the ne, which, fortunately, he hadnt yet destroyed.


    When he ced the stone into the hollow, it fit perfectly.


    Sitting together on the bed, a sudden, fleeting dark light spilled from within the treasure chest as it opened.


    "An old journal?" Katherine looked at the worn book in her hand, disappointed.


    It was thicker and older than the one Freya had given her, which barely looked like a small nner.


    She carefully opened the red, worn leather binding, examining the yellowed pages inside.


    Elliot, pressed against her back, watched everything with curiosity.


    ---- Do you understand thenguage?" he asked, studying the strange scribbles.


    "Yes, it seems to be the same code Nana gave me, but its still difficult for me.


    Ill have to decipher it carefully," she said, flipping through the fragile pages.


    suddenly, something fe piece of folded leather, tied with a red ribbon.


    Katherine reached out to grab it...