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Chapter 157: Assassin
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Gavin remained at the home when the attack happened, under the full watch of his staff so there would be ample witnesses. He’d sent a small group of his servants to the capital, just to pick up a few things and wait for their return. As he sipped his whiskey and made plans for what he would do first, he looked through his records. His monetary trail had been covered up well enough. The gold he’d given to the assassin and the rogues who were staging the attack had come from privately held vaults nestled in a small bank at the edge of his territory. It was so obscure that no one would be able to trace the money back to it unless they could break the code on his logbook. Basil was off on the border learning to be a soldier when he should be learning to be a king, so by the time Laurel was murdered and Adolph could even try to return, Gavin would fully be in the clear. “Minister Mirabelle, Jacob has returned from the capital,” a servant said, huffing and puffing with shock. “He said th
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Adolph turned to look at Eden down the hall, seated in an open window high above Adolph’s head, silent and still. He hadn’t even noticed Eden there. How had he gotten up there? Could he fly?How had he been so silent? It was as if he was dead with no heartbeat to mark his presence or the whoosh of his breathing. Unnerving and dangerous. He eyed Eden. “Oh?”“When she was a girl, there was a garden down there,” he pointed out to where Adolph had assumed a garden had been. “The flowers were the first to die… then the trees… Then the rock turned black and the canals of blood began to dry up.”Adolph shuddered, “Canals of blood?”Eden nodded, “They feed the base of the protections on the castle. I think in Crystal Castle the protections were fed by the people who lived there.”Adolph frowned, “The living werewolves?”Eden nodded and his lips twitched, “Morrigan’s plan to rot the werewolf kingdom from the inside started long before Delia arrived.”“... is this a part of those memories you
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Adolph stood aside as Eden walked to the center of the room. A stone platform lifted him into the air. The air stirred as Adolph watched the thick, black pool ripple and flow through the cracks in the stone platform. “What is he doing?”“It’s a blood cleansing ritual,” Caedan said mistily. “It will release every spirit trapped in the pools and cleanse the reservoirs.”Adolph looked at the man, “Including you?”He smiled and nodded, “Including me.”His voice turned to a whisper and his form vanished into a swirl of light that broke against the dark stone, clearing the darkness. More streaks of light jumped from the flowing liquid, blasting the darkness out of the stone until it turned a glowing silver like moonlight. Adolph watched stone turn silver beneath his feet. The door gleamed behind him and opened. He followed the rushing light and silver back up the stairs until he reached a window and saw that dawn was breaking over the citadel. Had they been down there that long? It hadn’t
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Adolph sighed into the open air as the carriages were prepared. Laurel tottered out of the castle towards him and he led her down the steps. She pouted and Adolph knew she was going to protest his care for her again. She was so stubborn lately though it was clear that she couldn’t move around the way she was used to.He had always been under the impression that a pregnant woman would appreciate being doted on and spoiled, but Laurel had always managed to surprise him.“I am just fine,” Laurel said. “I can walk on my own, you know?”“I let you walk from the stairs to out here on your own,” Adolph teased, “From our bed to the bathroom… the bathroom to the parlor—”“Enough,” she stuck out her tongue at him. “You’re not funny.”“I think you are just not in the mood to find me humorous,” Adolph said and pressed a kiss to her temple. “Let’s get going, hm?”She allowed him to help her into the carriage and he climbed in after her. He still wasn’t completely used to riding in a carriage after
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