Chapter 30 Devil in Shadow

COLE

Flynn shook his head without pause, his black braids fanning around him as he did. His mouth drew into a thin line and then he spoke.

“I can’t think of a single suspect,” he admitted. “I’m sure villains are out there, Your Majesty, but none immediately come to mind, at least noncapable of this.”

“What about Jack?” I asked, earning a look of shock from my Beta.

Silence hung heavily in the room, and for the briefest of seconds, I wondered if I’d made a mistake in blurting it out. Still, it was too late to reclaim the sentence, so I had to finish the thought.

“What if Jack is indeed alive?” I continued, rolling my shoulders back as a chill rippled through my chest. “If he could manage to save his own life from that wretched fire, he would certainly be capable of something like this.”

Flynn widened his dark eyes in disbelief and stared at me as if I were insane.

“That… would be impossible,” he said slowly. “Jack Elrod is dead, Your Majesty, as witnessed by many. Unless he was secretl