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~Cressida’s POV~ The fortress had never felt this quiet. Not truly quiet. There were still guards changing shifts, servants carrying trays through the halls, and council members arguing over matters that suddenly seemed small. But Lucian was gone, and somehow every sound felt wrong without him. I stood near the window of the council chamber, watching two guards cross the courtyard below. “How long has it been my lady?” Alma asked. I looked over my shoulder. “Since they left?” She nodded. “Almost a day.” She sighed and came to stand beside me. “And no word?” “Nothing.” Her face tightened. “Do you think they found Calder yet?” “I think if they had, we would have heard something.” That was the answer I gave her. It was not the answer I believed. I turned back toward the courtyard and folded my arms across my chest. Lucian had gone after Elara with Rowan, Thorne, and Jace. Four people against a man who had already proven he could stay three steps ahead of

~Cressida’s POV~ “Where is my Elara?” The words left my mouth broken and small, nothing like the firm voice I had used to command half the fortress only hours earlier. Lucian stood before me in silence. That silence frightened me more than any answer could have. I searched his face, waiting for him to tell me I was being foolish. Waiting for Elara to come riding through the gates behind him, angry at being fussed over and very much alive. But there was no Elara. Thorne looked away. Jace’s shoulders dropped. Rowan stood behind them with his face so pale I barely recognized him. My heart began to pound. “Lucian,” I said again. “Where is she?” He took a slow breath. “She is alive.” I closed my eyes. For one moment, that was enough. Alive. The word settled inside me like a hand reaching through deep water and pulling me toward the surface. Then my eyes opened.“Where is she?” His expression hardened. “We don’t know.” The relief disappeared.“You d

“Calder knew Elara was pregnant.”The words sat in the middle of the room like a blade.Nobody moved.Cressida was the first person I looked at. Her face had gone completely pale. Then my eyes found Rowan.He had been sitting quietly at the end of the table, but he rose so suddenly that his chair scraped against the floor.“He knows?” Rowan asked.His voice was barely controlled.I looked back at the letter in my hand. “He knows.”Rowan took a step toward me. “How?”“I don’t know.”That answer did nothing to calm him.“Was Elara hurt?” he asked. “Did he hurt her?”I folded the letter in my hand. “He didn’t say.”Rowan’s eyes flashed.“He knows she’s carrying my child and he didn’t tell us whether she’s hurt?”“That’s exactly what he wants,” Thorne said. “He wants us imagining the worst.”Rowan turned toward him. “And we’re supposed to sit here calmly?”“No,” I said. “We’re supposed to think.”My voice came out harder than I intended.Rowan looked at me.I understood his anger. I was a