I found the place where I had been interrupted, my eyes tracking the faded black ink.

*…Inside the lining of the bodice, sewn between the silk and the bone, is the true key to your future,* the letter read.

*Harrison and his mother believe the estate is secured by the deeds in the family safe.*

*They do not know that those deeds are copies I created to satisfy their greed.*

*The genuine, unamended deeds of Aster Hall are hidden in a secure vault beneath the grand ballroom.*

I stopped reading, my breath catching in my throat as I looked at Matteo.

“A vault beneath the ballroom?” I whispered.

“I never knew there was anything under those floors.”

“The old foundations,” Matteo said, his eyes wide.

“The original house was built over a stone cellar from the seventeenth century.”

“But how do we get in?” I asked, looking back down at the paper.

My eyes scanned the next paragraph.

*The vault can only be opened with the brass key and the combination seal hidden in the lining of the Celestia gown,* the letter continued.