Chapter 61

Eva

For the past few hours, all I could think about was Nox and the tale he shared with me. I was overcome with the need to talk to Cyrus about it and ask him why he doubted Nox so much. Why would Nox separate himself from his family and come all the way here for revenge if he wasn’t sure of my father’s involvement in the death of his parents? It was clear that it hurt him, especially when he mentioned it.

Why didn’t Cyrus ever look into it? Or did he?

I had to say that I believed Nox. I didn’t think he was lying. I understood why he wanted to kill me. He was angry enough to want to cause Kolton pain regardless of who would pay the price. I now imagined that almost everyone here probably endured the same kind of pain as he. Kolton truly was a terrible person, and I hated it when everyone referred to him as my father.

This all made me think about my mother—what could she have gone through to run away and abandon me in front of that Convent? It must have been horrible to force her to