Ayda’s POV

“Ayda!”

“Sebastian!”

There wasn’t much time before the guard took him away, and I was lost in the fray of panicking nobles. Alarmists were saying it was a planned attack, that someone matching the South Towers killer had been spotted; others claimed that it was likely old age and too much excitement.

They reasoned that Kostas had Sebastian late in life and was almost to his seventy-fifth ...