The Golden Echoes
The dust in the Thorne Manor did not settle; it hung in the air like a suspended breath. Elias Thorne, forty-two and rigid with the particular arrogance of a man who believes he is the sole custodian of truth, adjusted his spectacles. He held the ledger open, the leather spine cracking under his thumbs. The estate sale was in three days. The house was bleeding money, a slow hemorrhage of debts...
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