Chapter 4: The Devil's Deal

"Aleksander Cross," he said. The name meant nothing to me. It meant everything to Elias — he actually stepped backward, like the floor had moved. "That's not possible," Elias whispered. "Cross is a ghost story. He built the Commission. He held five families for twenty years. They say when he died, they buried the throne with him." "They didn't bury it." Nikolai poured two fingers of something amber and pushed the glass across the table to me. "They lost it. He had one child, hidden in a...