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Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 34: What the Thief Left Behind
"The guard who stood outside this door all night just confessed."Garrison's voice is tight when he says it, and Caius turns from the window so fast the lock of hair nearly slips from his hand."Confessed to what.""To sleeping, my lord. Nothing more sinister than that, he swears it, but it means someone had a clear window to enter unseen." Garrison's jaw is set, humiliated on the guard's behalf and his own. "I've had him held for questioning. He says he was given wine before his shift. Didn't think twice about it. It came from the kitchens, same as always.""The same kitchens Marcus visited before his arrest," I say, the pieces sliding together with a clarity that settles something cold and certain in my chest. "The same compound Iris found in both our bloodwork. This isn't Reyne reaching into your private chambers, Caius. This is someone following a pattern Marcus already taught them."Caius's hand closes slowly around the lock of hair. "You think he arranged this from his cell. Bef
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 33: A Hand in the Room While We Slept
"Someone was standing over us. While we slept."Caius says it like he's testing whether the words can actually be true, staring at the lock of his own hair resting in Garrison's palm, and I watch something break loose in him that even the ring's theft hadn't managed."We need to search this room properly," I say, forcing steel into my voice because someone has to. "Every inch. If they got close enough to cut your hair and take a ring off your finger, they left something behind. Nobody is that careful."Iris arrives within minutes, summoned by Garrison, and the four of us go through the chamber methodically, lifting rugs, checking behind tapestries, running hands along the stone for any seam that shouldn't exist. It's Iris who finds it, crouched near the hearth, her fingers catching on something half tucked beneath the ash grate."Here."A small vial, empty, a faint residue clinging to the glass. She holds it to the light, sniffing carefully, her expression tightening."The same compou
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 32: What His Hand Remembers
"It can't be gone. You never take it off."I sit up fast, following his gaze to his bare finger, the pale indentation where the ring has sat every moment I've known him, now empty, skin slightly paler there than the rest of his hand."I didn't take it off." Caius is already out of bed, searching the sheets, the floor, every surface within reach, movements growing more frantic with each empty result. "I never take it off. Not to bathe, not to sleep, not once in six years.""Could it have slipped loose during the night," I ask, though even as I say it, the suggestion feels thin against the particular fear on his face."It fits exactly as it was fitted to fit. It doesn't slip." He stops searching, pressing both hands flat against the small writing desk near the window, shoulders rigid. "Someone took it from me while I slept, Rowan. In this room. With guards stationed outside the door the entire night."The implication settles cold between us. Whoever managed this didn't force their way i
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 31: Closer Than Anyone Suspected
"Closer than anyone has thought to suspect. That's not a clue, that's a taunt."Caius reads the note a third time, frustration bleeding into his voice, and I take it from his hands to look for myself, searching for anything he might have missed in his exhaustion."He's playing a game," I say slowly. "Marcus wants us distracted, hunting shadows instead of looking at what's directly in front of us.""Or he's telling the truth, and the real danger really has been standing close enough to touch this whole time." Caius drags a hand through his hair. "Either way, I'm done treating every new message like gospel. We have the journal. We have Reyne exposed in front of the full council. That's real ground, Rowan, not another riddle to chase.""Then let's use it," I say. "Stop reacting to every note slipped under a door and start closing in on who's actually left to suspect."Nadia crosses her arms, thinking it through with the same sharp focus she'd shown in the hidden chamber hours ago. "Narro
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 30: The Accusation Reyne Brought
"On what grounds," Caius says, before the guard has even finished relaying the message, already moving toward the door with the journal still clutched in one hand."She has a witness, my lord. Someone who claims to have seen Rowan speaking with Marcus in the garden shortly before his escape." The guard's eyes dart to me, apologetic for carrying words he clearly doesn't believe himself. "She's gathering the full council in the main hall as we speak.""That's impossible," I say, my pulse jumping despite the certainty in my own voice. "I haven't left your sight since the courtyard.""I know that," Caius says, already striding down the corridor with the journal tucked inside his coat. "She's betting the council doesn't."Garrison falls into step beside us, Nadia close behind, the small group moving with the particular urgency of people who understand exactly how quickly public opinion can curdle in a room full of frightened, tired nobility looking for someone simple to blame. I feel every
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 29: Together, Not Taken
"Taken, or did he walk out on his own feet?"Caius's voice is low, controlled in a way that doesn't match the fury visibly working through his jaw, and Garrison hesitates just long enough to answer the question honestly instead of comfortably."The cell door wasn't forced, my lord. It was unlocked. From the inside." Garrison's eyes flick to me, apologetic for what he's about to say. "We believe Dominic freed himself first, then freed Marcus."The air leaves my chest in a rush. "Dominic wouldn't help him. Not after everything Marcus did to try to destroy this marriage, this family.""We don't know that for certain anymore," Caius says, grim. "We don't know much of anything for certain tonight."I dress quickly, Caius barely sparing a glance for propriety as he pulls on his coat, both of us moving with the particular efficiency of people who've already lived through one crisis too many in the last twelve hours to waste time on composure. By the time we reach the lower cells, a small cro
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