Chapter Sixteen
Tevera expected questions, outrage, a meeting with the captain . . . but all that happened, when they reached Thaylia, was that she was shown to her cabin, given food, and left in silence. The door was security-sealed, preventing her from opening it. Her attempts to use the comm went nowhere. She was a prisoner of her own Family.
She showered, put on clean clothes, sat, ate, waited . . . and worried.
What will the Family do about Salazar and Vorlick? was a part of that worry, but a very small part. Most of her worry was devoted to the one question she most desperately wanted an answer to.
Where’s Kriss?
Rain poured down with shocking suddenness before Kriss reached the inn, soaking through his clothes in seconds and chilling him to the bone. But he was grateful for the
