CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

ALARIC’S POV

“Elara killed the maid that almost murdered you,” he said.

For a full second I did not react. I just stared at him. My face felt empty, like it refused to understand the meaning of the words he had thrown at me.

I knew Elara had a dark past. I knew she had killed before. But the woman I had seen these past days… I could not place her beside the image of someone who would quietly end a life without second thought.

“Wow,” I muttered, my voice ...