Page 75 of Immortal Unveiled

“Hmm.” Winter looked around. “Is there anything else she might have had on her on the last day?”

Kim swept her gaze around the room, looking for the jacket her mother had worn on cool days, when her eyes caught on her mother’s handbag, which sat on a chair. She pointed to it. “Mom never left the house without her handbag. She said she felt naked without it.”

Winter rose. “May I?”

Kim was already picking it up and handing it to Winter. “Here.”

Winter took it, holding the handle with one hand while touching the leather on the outside with the other. “Hmm.” A disappointed look crossed her face. “I thought since it’s such a personal item… But nothing.”

“Are you sure? There are other things inside, her wallet, her lipstick. Maybe if you touch those…”

Winter reached into the handbag and rummaged around in it. Kim blinked away the growing disappointment and looked at her feet to hide the rising tears.

A gasp jolted her back to awareness. She spun her head back to Winter, who dropped the handbag on the floor. A wallet, keys, and several receipts fell from it. A lipstick rolled under the bed. But Kim wasn’t concerned with any of this now because Winter looked like she was about to faint.

“Manus, Logan,” Kim called out as she jumped toward Winter to catch her.

But she didn’t have to support Winter’s weight because Winter was already opening her eyes again, steadying herself and breathing normally again.

“Did you… Was that…?” Kim didn’t dare hope.

Winter nodded.

Simultaneously, Logan stormed into the room, closely followed by Manus and Grayson. Logan gripped Winter’s arms. “Are you okay?”

“Of course, I’m okay,” she said. “It worked.”

“What did you see?” Manus now asked eagerly.

“It’s a book,” Winter started. “But I couldn’t see the title or what was written in it.”

“Then how are we gonna—?”

Winter interrupted Manus, “Because I know whom it belongs to.”

“Who?” Logan and Manus asked in unison.

“There was an inscription. It said, To my wonderful daughter, our future warrior, Virginia. Your father.”

Logan and Manus looked at each other.

“You don’t think that…?” Logan asked.

“If you’re right, then we’re in deep shit,” Manus confirmed.

“Virginia is the only one who can confirm it.”

“Who’s Virginia?” Kim interrupted.

Manus turned to her. “I’ll introduce you to her. Fancy a trip to San Francisco?”

“San Francisco?” Kim echoed.

“We’ll take the portal,” Manus said.

“Mind if I hitch a ride?” Grayson asked. “It’s my mother’s birthday, and I’d like to surprise her.”

Manus sighed. “If you must.”

“I must,” Grayson said, grinning.