My tongue curls in my mouth as red-hot anger bursts through me.
Lilly with someone else?
No fucking way.
She’d never.
“I still can’t believe she spent the whole night dancing and talking with Evan Sotherby.”
What?
Evan?
What was he doing in Marsdale?
“She looked very smitten, didn’t she?” the familiar voice asks.
“Very. Glad we set that up. Everything is going according to plan, wouldn’t you say?”
“I would.” Familiar voice comes up to me and kicks me in the leg. The pain is nothing at this point, but I groan just to make the asshole happy. “With this pathetic ass out of the way, we just have to take out Lilly, and Torskethorpe is ours.”
“And once it’s ours, we’re claiming Birch Forest.”
“Shut up, you nimrod,” the familiar voice says.The shrill of his voice. Frustration creeps up my chest as I can’t place him. “Come on. We have to speak to our contacts, see how the king is doing.”
They leave the cell, locking up, and when I no longer hear their footsteps, I sit up, the cold of the floor still pressed into my chest, matching the cold seeping into my heart.
She’s been seen with Evan Sotherby?Would she really move on that quickly? And how the hell did they set that up? Evan is as loyal as I am when it comes to his country and protecting the crown. He wouldn’t be swayed by the enemy.
I drag my hand over my face, as I bend my knees to my chest, and try to figure out this goddamn puzzle.
Fuck, is she really seeing him?
I tug on my greasy hair, the strands much longer than I’ve ever worn them now. Would she move on that quickly?No, they’re just trying to fuck with you. That’s been their plan all along.
Stay straight, Keller.
Don’t let them get to you.
Focus on figuring out what you know so far.
Familiar voice.
Almost two familiar voices.
Definitely attached to Arkham, that much is true.
Wanting to take over Torskethorpe, overthrow Lilly.
Wanting the Birch Forest . . .
I press my hands to my head.
Fuck, what does it all mean?
Why would they want Birch Forest? That makes no sense to me.
And what the fuck do they have planned for Lilly?
