THE PAST

I didn’t know what to make of that information. Either the fae in Ernest’s camp thought they were helping me by keeping her weak, or they also needed to be dealt with.

Everyone who had harmed Selina would face their justice.

Three days after they arrived, the first inkling of my wrongdoing reared its ugly head. Virgil didn’t have to say a word after she found me in one of my casinos, the Pink Eagle. I read it all over her face.

“What happened?” I demanded, leaping out of my office chair. “Is it Selina?”

She shook her head. “Someone set fire to The Azure.”

I blinked, the words not computing at first.

“What?”

“It’s definitely arson, and the insurance company isn’t going to like this, Jeff.”

“Ernest!” I growled, pounding a fist against the desk.

“It wasn’t Ernest,” Jeff sighed. “The perpetrator was caught. He has no ties to Forny.”

“Who is it?”

She shrugged, but before she could speak another word, Petyr appeared. He and Virgil had come to work with me at the Pink Eagle while t