en

abandoned watchtower was outside the Knight patrol routes, but high enough for Ezra to see every entrance to the

"They planted evidence to frame me for infidelity, so Caleb could publicly reject me." I

poke aloud-a seamless and startlingly intimate conn

them now, the Knight family would turn them into martyrs and bury the

ing back in now would be suicid

authority, "contact Lady Hayes. Tell her the cure for her

ying from a rare ailment. An ailment I knew how to treat. One dose could suppress the spasms, but it could not repair the damage to her blood. I needed two

agreement," Ezra linked to me, "along with your written instructions

ed as I saw a lone figure slip away from the main

led out

" I wh

ng into the trees and circling around to the old clock tower that ove

yes. His hearing

is sharp with anxiety. She's asking if the 'treatment' coul

heart a slow,

't delay any longer...

d not be delayed. I put the pieces together from Arden's memories. I did the math instantly. E

e dates matched the memories I had i

taken another woman. It was that he had conceived a child while the Moon Goddess still recognized me as his ma

face. I had found their weakness. T

en eyes were open, watchin

need her medical records. The conception estimate. Jocelyn's payments. The poison purchase recor

ire in my eyes, and for the first time, I

his voice ech

state, servants were beginning to erect

ough time to gather proof, but not enough t

ld be