The Unseen Operative

Previously

…As they slipped out the back door, the grand facade of Robert’s mansion seemed to mock them, a gilded cage from which they had narrowly escaped. The night air was cool against their skin, a welcome balm after the suffocating tension within. They didn’t speak, their shared understanding a silent pact. They were in this together, two estranged sisters bound by a deadly secret, their lives irrevocably altered by the unseen operative who had pulled the strings of Robert’s life, and ultimately, his death. The hunt had begun.