Arriving at the address Hadrian Turner had sent her, Aurelia Shaw hesitated for a moment and knocked on the door.
The door wasn't closed; it swung open at a touch.
Aurelia's brows furrowed, an instinctive sense of wrongness rising in her. She walked a few steps inside and immediately caught the heavy stench of blood thick in the air, so strong it made her stomach heave with nausea, wafting out from the room ahead.
Aurelia abruptly halted mid-step, certain suspicions surfacing in her mind.
She turned to leave without staying even a second longer, but she was still too late.
She ran right into Emily Stewart, who was just coming back, at the doorway.
