Chapter 042

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Cassius

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I watched Sylphie’s face as her eyes cautiously darted across the page of the file, I’d given her.

It was the report on my father’s death. Not just on the cause, even though that much was obvious without the investigation—I’d seen it myself. My father had been stabbed in the heart with a black dagger laced with silver and wolf’s bane poison. A lethal concoction.

The memory of that night flashed into my mind, curling at the grief I’d long since bury into the back of my mind, though they never truly left.

But that hadn’t been all that had happened, at least I knew that now. And that was why I had Gilles, my Beta, investigate it. Because the moment I’d seen Sylphie again, my mind seemed to have become clearer—like a haze I hadn’t realize had been there lifted. Like a storm cloud clearing after a heavy downpour, letting the sunlight shine through.

Seeing Sylphie again was the sunlight to my clouded mind. And I saw things about her banishment in a new ligh