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Chapter 18

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I did not sleep that night.

The note sat on the table beside the candle and I just kept staring at it like the words might change if I looked long enough.

Ask your father what he gave Kael the night before your arrest.

Someone in this compound had written that. Someone who had waited until I stepped outside to slide it under my door. Someone who knew things about my father that I did not know and wanted me to find out.

That thought sat heavy and cold in my chest all night long.

By morning I had
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