Everything changed in a few moments—he was gone. When I went outside to see, I saw no one there. The hallways were deserted. And his absence chilled me more than what had been revealed.
What had I been fighting for all this time?
I went back inside and sat on the seat, shutting off my laptop and putting it aside, feeling exhausted. Thinking about what had been revealed. It was now a fact—Tommen was a Shadow Knight, and his records had been removed from the organization by Edmund. Most likely because he wanted to hide the identity of the real murderer behind Killian’s parents’ death. Why did he want to hide it? And why did he lie to Killian?
And the question I was most afraid of: what if my father had something to do with it?
The cigarette marks on Killian's body—the image burned in my
