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We were just sitting down and going over everything we knew. There were piles and piles of documents scattered across my desk between Damian, Cedric, and me as we tried to piece together this puzzle when I got an email from Crux just as it hit dinne: time.
I was waiting for Gannon to arrive; he was waiting for Abbie to take Tyson from him so he could come down and help us. Tyson was being fussy and refused to go to Clarice earlier, so he had been stuck in his room waiting for her to return
“Crux sent the tracking information,” I tell Damian, who immediately comes over to peer over my shoulder as I pull up the maps and coordinates.
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“Says he is still within the Kingdom limits. According to this, he never left,” Damian breathed.
“So we have a traitor within the Kingdom?” | growl.
“Or Larkin is the traitor?” Cedric offers. Damian shakes his head, “No, I don’t like the man, but Azalea commanded him. You already know this. There was no way he was lying.”
There is no way he would abandon his son” | add, knowing for sure.
“Crux could have forged this?” Cedric says, scratching his chin as he comes over to look at my laptop.
“If so, then where is Larkin?” I breathe. All this was giving me a headache. I just wanted to hide away with Azalea and forget the world.
“Well, according to this, down by the old mill just inside the surrounding forest,” Cedric says, pointing to the map.
“I can have some men go check the area,” Cedric offers. I shake my head.
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“Where are you? Are you still in your office?” she asks me.
“Yes, but we were about to head to the old ballroom. More room, and we need help going over old case files. So the Landeena guard and our guard are coming to help sift through everything,” I tell her.
“Okay, well, I have Abbie and Gannon with me. Dustin is going to get Peter and bring him up. Trey and Liam have gone down to the archives to retrieve staff documentation,”
“Staff documentation? And why are you bringing Peter up?” I ask her and feel her nervousness loud and clear through the bond.
“Yes, Peter, I think I know who is helping Crux,” she tells me.
“And how did you come by this information?” I ask her.
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“Well, I will send some men down to help drag everything up.” I tell her, getting out of my seat. I nod toward all our boxes, and they immediately start boxing everything.
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“Okay I am on my way. The kitchen staff can deliver dinner to the ballroom.” I tell her, cutting off the link. I pondered her words. She felt so sure, and I wasn’t about to doubt her not anymore.
“Take a photo of that board. There is a huge whiteboard in the storage room off the side of the ballroom. There is better than trying to squeeze everyone into my office. Plus, there are toys and crap for all the kids to play with” I tell Damian and Cedric.
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When we get to the ballroom. I can see through the huge double doors that Dustin had Peter in the far corner, sitting in a chair. He looked petrified and out of place. Azalea kept her word and hadn’t been inside yet, and was waiting for me by the doors.
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e were about to head into war. I suppose, in a sense, we were with the way everyone is combing ove
doing?” Aza
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asks, and I
ric will check it out tomorrow.
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e third time. Abbie had left an hour ago, unable to watch with Tandi. Azalea had thrown up twice at the thought of hurting her b
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“Please, Kyson, he knows nothing. Now you‘re just torturing him,” Azalea whimpers. I sigh, believing she is right. Peter mumbles, drooling on himself.
We have got no extra information out of him. Her command had him falling over himself to answer, yet this one question bothered me. After the hours he endured. I was positive that he was no longer a threat to Azalea and that he also had no intention of hurting her again.
We had also concluded that he panicked when he killed our daughter. It was never his intention to kill her. He didn’t realize it was wolfsbane he was poisoning her with initially. Yet every time we had asked him where he obtained the wolfsbane, he couldn’t remember.
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command the answer out of him, b
her but not know where he got it,
sn’t know,” I sigh
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“But what if he was commanded to forget?” Trey offers. He had suggested it earlier, and now I was beginning to believe him. Azalea squirms on my lap, her desire to check on him pulsing through me. Yet here, she is surrounded by her own guard and mine. He would be dead within a blink of an eye if he tried anything, though he was far too weak to do so. The boy could barely lift his own head.
“Go,” I whisper to her, and she jumps off my lap, rushing toward him. Trey instantly steps in her way, and so does Cedric
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whispers to him, and he nods his head limpl
s to do as he is told and brings her a bottle of water. I grip his head, lifting it. Her heart
caps the bottle and tips it to his lips, helping him drink. Cedric comes over with a wet clot
ks, peering up at me. I could tell she wasn’t a
“I will stay the night with him,” Dustin assures her and me, so I know he wouldn’t be leaving wherever he is placed. “He can stay with Liam and me for the night,” Dustin tells her. Peter’s eyes widen in fear at the mention of Liam’s name, and he glances at him where he stood with Gannon.
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in yours. I don’t want him around their families,” Dustin no
“Are you right with him? I just want to go over this one more time,” Liam asks Dustin. Dustin nods.
m,” Cedric tells him, and he nods, turning back to the board, and Cedr
“Azalea, no. You stay here,” I tell her, and she growls but reluctantly does as she is told. We had a deal. Peter being here came with conditions and rules I wasn’t breaking.
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e is convinced Ester
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ould practically feel her thinking. Tension writhes
n’t involved with each other, and you’re looki
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was worth a shot. I watch as Gannon and Trey move toward the table, gathering documen
zalea w
er Ester fal
dom falls. Azalea is missing
Valkyrie Kingdom and starts
yrie Kingdom attack
illed. Azalea and Abbie are
is found and returned t
that helps us or links the cou
ays. Azalea scrunches up
ar after my family was killed?
“And where did you go after the Kingdom fell?” she asks him while still peering over at him.
a Guard looking fo
“Add it to the board. I want to see what matches after my parent’s kingdom fell” she says, her brows scrunching together.
point of this
“Tam trying to figure out how no one recognized Marissa or Ester, two women that were at both Kingdom’s, when they fell” I sigh. If we were mapping out a timeline of every person, we would be here all year and still not be finished.
