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12.The Dead Official
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The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 30.The Courier's Trial
Garrick kept looking at the door after he said Marek Venn’s name.“Do you know where he went after he delivered the order?” I asked.“He was supposed to go back to the capital, but the next morning, I heard he never got there.”“Who told you?”“A clerk from the military office. He came for the deployment papers and asked if Venn had come back. I said no, and he told me not to worry about it.”Rowan stepped closer. “Did Venn say where he was going?”“He said he had one more delivery first. Something along the coast, but he never said where.”“Did he travel alone?”“He always did. He delivered orders between the military offices and the commanders, and he knew every road.”I wanted him to say more, but Garrick shook his head. “That’s all I remember. I can’t give you a place I never knew.”Before we left, I asked if he would say the same thing to the King. He folded his hands. “If I’m called, I’ll tell them what I know. I won’t make up the rest.”That was all I could ask for. He looked t
The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 29.The Northern Commander
Rowan came back before I could talk to Adrian about Seraphina’s letter. He was carrying a folder, and he looked like he spent the morning arguing with someone.“I found Captain Garrick’s promotion record,” he said. “He was promoted after the Ashford hearing, and two years later he left active service. He’s retired now, living on a northern estate the crown gave him.”“And the original deployment order?” I asked.“It’s not in anything I checked. There’s a reference to it in the transfer list, but the order itself is gone.”Another missing piece. We kept finding out that the one thing we needed wasn’t there.Adrian took the folder and read the first page. I already knew whose approval was on it, and his jaw clenched, but he didn’t say Cassian’s name.“Garrick was in charge of the eastern reserve company,” Rowan said. “If anyone remembers what instructions reached that unit, it’s him.”“Then we ask him,” I said.Adrian looked up. “You’re not going north without protection.”“I wasn’t pla
The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 28.An Uncomfortable Truth
Seraphina put the letter in her bag, but she didn’t leave.“You keep making promises,” she said. “First you won’t take the letter from me, and now you won’t show it to Adrian.”“I mean them.”“That isn’t what you used to do.”I looked at her, and there was no point pretending I didn’t know what she meant. “No. It isn’t.”Nobody said anything, and I thought she would leave, but she just stood there.“You know,” Seraphina said, “I used to think you were behind it.”“Behind what?”“What happened to my family. The rumors about us, the invitations that stopped coming, and the people who stopped visiting for no reason.” She gripped her bag tighter. “I thought you were helping them.”In the book, Elena was a lot worse than rude, and she was the one who made sure Seraphina wasn’t invited anywhere. Reading it was one thing, but hearing Seraphina say it to my face hurt.Elena was mean enough to do all of that, and I wanted to say it wasn’t me, but it would only sound like an excuse.“I was cruel
The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 27.The Intercepted Letter
Seraphina was still standing by the window, and my heart was pounding when I asked.“Would you let me see the letter?”Her eyes narrowed. “I thought you weren’t going to ask.”“I wanted to, but you haven’t agreed to help me, so I didn’t want to push.”She reached into her small bag and pulled out a folded piece of paper. “I kept it because something felt wrong about it, and I haven’t shown it to anyone.”I unfolded it slowly. It was a letter to her father from her uncle, and most of it was court talk, who was meeting who and what the council was fighting about. Then I got to one sentence near the bottom that made me stop.If the King keeps ignoring the council, our house should withdraw its loyalty before his next order.I read it twice, and I didn’t like how calm it sounded, like somebody wanted it to be found.“Does your uncle sound like this?”“No,” she said right away. “He can disagree with Adrian, but he would never write that.”“How do you know?”Her voice shook, and she turned h
The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 26.Seraphina's Refusal
After Rowan walked out, it was just Adrian, Liora, and me in the office, and the ledgers were still open on the desk.Adrian looked at Liora. “Don’t go back to the archive until the guards finish searching it. I’ll have a room ready for you, and you can tell Rowan anything else when he comes back.”“I can wait,” Liora said. “But that page matters. Without it, we might never find the clerk.”“I know.” He called for a guard. “Take her to a safe room near the offices. And if she wants to leave, someone goes with her.”Liora picked up her things, but she stopped at the door and looked back at me. “The initials are still in the ledger. Don’t let anyone tell you the missing page makes the rest useless.”“I won’t.”She nodded, and then she left.After she left, Adrian didn’t say anything. He just watched me, like he was waiting for me to mess up.“You’re thinking about something,” he said finally.“I want to talk to Seraphina.”“Why?”“Rowan knew that unit, but we don’t know who else served i
The Villainess Who Rewrote The Ending 25.The Missing Page
I still smelled like smoke, and every time I coughed, I remembered those doors that wouldn’t open.Liora sat on the steps with the staff register in her lap, rubbing her thumb over the cut. “Whoever did this was careful,” she said. “They didn’t just rip it out.”I stared at the little strip of paper that was left and pictured someone sitting here, calmly cutting out one page. I came into this story trying to stay alive, and every clue we found made that harder.“Is there another copy of the register?” I asked.“Maybe, but I’ll have to ask the clerk in charge. I’m sorry I didn’t copy that page last week.”“You didn’t know,” I said.Rowan stood nearby with the two ledgers and the transfer register. “He’s being brought here now, and I’ll make him list every clerk who worked that section.”I hoped he was right, since the page was gone and the names might be somewhere else, and after today, I didn’t trust a single thing in that archive.“The King needs to see these,” Rowan said. “Liora sho
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