LORD KAELAfter the injured slave had been taken away and the girl escorted out, I ran a hand through my hair, disturbing the perm."Oh, now you've gone to spoil your perm, Kael," Elias said, and he sipped more of his wine. He was more concerned about my hair then he was concerned about my life. I never really understood the man but I knew he was someone that I couldn't trust as a political ally. Elias Thorne was good at digging up secrets and I knew he had a lot of them, mostly about people he considered both friends and enemies, because you never knew what might turn up in the future. And it was the reason why people of influence entertained him, just to get him on their side. Same reason why I had brought him into my estate and broken a very important rule. Now, he wasn't even concerned that I was just about to get offed. "Aren't you bothered about me?" I had the zeal to ask. "How so?" he put down his cup. "Someone just tried to kill me, Elias," I said. "That was your folly
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