IrinaWe found him in the east wing, exactly where the roster said he would be at that hour, Corin, the man who had stood close enough to my sons to teach them how to hold a practice blade without flinching, close enough that I had never once thought to question the loyalty in his eyes. He did not run when Sebastian's guards surrounded him. He simply set down the ledger he'd been holding and waited, and something about the stillness of it told me he had been waiting for this exact morning for a very long time."You knew," Sebastian said, and his voice carried none of the roughness from the night before. This was the voice of a king, flat and absolute. "Three years of seal access. A transfer authorization forged well enough to survive audit. Timed to surface the same week Irina and I finally stopped pretending there was nothing between us."Corin's gaze slid to me, and for the first time since I had known him, I saw something underneath the careful loyalty, old g
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