“No. It couldn’t be. She couldn’t have killed them. They’re our sisters.”
“Think about it.”
I open my mouth to argue more, but then shut it again. Simple memories and random facts pile in front of me. She was with Violette when Violette died. She claimed that she had gone back to the castle for a second, but is it possible that Alexanne killed her and then blamed it on a poisoning? What about after Evette died? Alexanne had come down with a mysterious sickness. The doctor wasn’t able to find the sickness behind it. Could it have been faked as an alibi? Alexanne had been constantly crying, perhaps it was her recovering from all the guilt of what she’d just done.
In the beginning, she never wanted to come with us when we did our investigations. Maybe she was afraid we’d find something tha
