[Nikolai]
I straightened out of my defensive pose and into a more confrontational one, but that didn’t mean that I’d dropped my guard. Not one bit.
“What do you mean they’ve caught the culprit?!” Camilla was the first to ask the one question everyone was itching to know, beating me to the punch.
Kain shrugged. “How am I meant to—“ but he stopped mid-sentence. “I mean, you could call him and ask for the details.”
Camilla muttered something under her breath and pulled out her phone to make the call.
Isolde nor I nor Isolde had said a word, but my eyes were still searching for an escape route. One that both of us could make it through.
If I’d been alone, I could have managed to overwhelm them with speed alone, hence avoiding a full confrontation. They had the numbers, but they didn’t s
