The Distant Whispers

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The iron key bit into the lock with a sound like a bone snapping, and you twisted it, your knuckles white against the cold metal, the air in the library already thick with the smell of damp rot and old paper. You were twelve years old, the last of the Ashworths, and the estate was bleeding money faster than the crops could bleed it back, the ledger in your father’s study a graveyard of red ink...

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