Chapter 206

The way Kane treated his father at the end there shocked me. I had gotten used to his kindness, or maybe I had just forgotten what he could be like when he’s angry, and he was fuming in those last moments. I don’t blame him for it, just like I don’t blame him for killing my father so brutally.

“I have the council meeting,” he says as he walks me back to our apartment. “You should perhaps go and check on my mother.”

“You said I have to stay in the apartment.”

He shrugs and stops dead in his tracks. “I was wrong to make such demands. You should go on with life as you normally would if that’s what you want to do. All I ask are that you stay in the castle for now and always have your guards with you.”

“Okay,” I agree. “Talking about mothers….Where’s mine?”

Kane shrugs. “Somewhere in the castle.”

“She’s not back in the dungeon?” Julia told me how Kane let my mother out to help them look for me. I still don’t trust her, especially not with Adare, but after what she’d done, no one will