Chapter 35

But when she returned to her rooms, Theo r was seated on her bed.

“Hey! What are you doing here?”

She sighed and held up a piece of paper. “Dozan has me sending missives now.”

“I thought you were a card dealer,” she said, taking the letter from

“I am, but he knows that you trust me. So, here I am.”

Kerrigan waved away the note of concern and instead broke open Dozan’s red wax seal—an arrow through a capital R.

The letter held an address and underneath that:

Tonight at midnight.

Do try not to get killed, princess.

—D.R.

She scowled at the letter. Princess. She hated everything that he called her, but princess was a joke. A stupid joke. Oh, how she regretted confiding in him all those years ago.

“What have you gotten yourself into?” Theo asked.

“There’s a weapons deal happening tonight,” Maya said. Magic flared to life at her fingertips, and she burned the note to cinders.

“So?”

“So, I’m going.”

“What? Why?”

Maya sighed. “Someone tried to kill me the other night. It was the same person