Soren – POV

Killian glanced between me and Raisel, his expression unreadable.

“To answer your question... why not check what's on the pen drive?” he suggested. “Maybe now's the right time. Then I’ll answer whatever you want.”

From a spare burner laptop, I plugged in the drive. Just one file: a video. Raisel sat beside me as we hit play—and watched the footage of me... killing Alaric.

I froze. My eyes locked on Killian.

“Where did you get this?” I asked, voice ...