XAHEN.“Search the western wing again. Every closet, every crawl space. If a mouse moves, I want to know about it.”My voice seemed to bite into the walls of the throne room. The guard didn't even look up. He simply bowed, his shoulders hunched in fear, and scrambled away. I watched his retreating back, my jaw clenching so hard that I might crush it.I hated when they did that.Fled from me like I was some sort of bomb waiting to explode.On some days, I understood it. Today, I wasn’t patient enough to not be upset by it.Kane was gone, again.I had personally asked every guard on the perimeter. Not one of them had seen a flash of his coat or heard the sound of a footfall. But that was my brother, a ghost when he wanted to be.He had used the chaos of Theodosa’s arrival to play his games, manipulated every piece to fit his agenda, and the second the curtain fell, he had vanished.He set her on me and left me at her mercy.How fucking cruel of him.I stood in the center of the vast, em
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