Ashes of the Alpha’s Daughter
My father hesitated.
"Investigate," he ordered Caleb. "Find out who bribed the servant."
"Got it."
The final image showed my father standing beside Lucia's bed, gently brushing hair from her pale forehead.
Outside the frame, I was being escorted out of the medical lodge by warriors.
The projection in the sky faded away.
My father stood motionless in the square.
He spoke first, "Did the maid confess anything later?"
"No," Caleb said quietly. "She took her own life in the cell that same night."