Chapter 21

Kane's POV:

The day passed in a haze. I wanted to confront my father, but Glenn wouldn’t let me get past him. “You are not thinking clearly, and you have no proof.”

“You know he did it!”

“Yes, but we can’t just go accusing him…we’ll build a case against him, be patient.”

I paced up and down my apartment, sweat dripping from my body. I never thought I’d be this upset about Shay dying. I always thought it would be a relief, but I was broken up in ways I couldn’t explain.

“It’s the loss of the bond,” Glenn said. He sat on the couch, watching me with weary eyes, getting ready to jump in if he needed to.

“We barely had a bond.”

“But you had it all the same, even if it wasn’t as deep as a true mate bond.”

“Richard is going to blame me for this, and rightly so. I should just have abjured her.”

“You couldn’t have known your father would go that far to get what he wants.”

I stopped pacing and stared at my chancellor. “I should have. He’s done much worse in the past.”

After that, thin