Chapter 36
"I have a question," Poseidon interjected, raising a hand to signal his confusion. Wyatt and Rylee both looked up, their eyes locking onto him.
"If you knew Layla was such a liability from the start, why didn't you just banish her?"
It was the question every bounty hunter in the room had been chewing on. According to everything they’d been told, Layla’s history was a mosaic of "minor" infractions—each one a small crack that, when viewed together, formed the foundation of a major crime. By the laws they lived by, it was more than enough to warrant her exile.
Rylee shifted her gaze, looking pointedly at Wyatt. It was the same relentless question that had haunted them since the beginning, hanging over the group like a foul odor that no one could quite wash away.
"I was too len
