Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Six: The Missing Cousin
Tyler got to Claire before the filing notification did. By fourteen minutes, which he told Lila afterward with the precise satisfaction of someone who understood that fourteen minutes had been the entire difference.
He sat with her in the Kingsley-Wilder communications office — her office, her space, a room she had been building a professional life in for eight months — and he told her what was in the filing and what it meant and what had been done with her medical records, and he did it with the direct, unembellished honesty of someone who believed the worst thing you could do to a person was soften the truth of something they had a right to know fully.
Lila got the report that evening. Tyler s
