MIRABEL POV “Silas escaped.” I blinked. “Excuse me?” I said, because surely, I misheard. Owen sighed like he was bracing for my reaction. “I know you and Silas are close friends, and you believe he won’t harm you, but we know his family better than you do. They are cunning. Him running before we finished the investigation just proves he is the masked man.” I scoffed. “That’s not proof. That’s circumstantial at best.” “If he was innocent, why did he break out of prison before the investigation was over ?” Noah said, raising a brow. Okay. Fair point. I hesitated. “I—I don’t know. He must have had a reason. Wasn’t his family coming to our pack?” The triplets—my mates—had refused to torture him or let Father interrogate him until his family arrived. But now he’d run, which made him an

