The kitchen was utterly silent.
"He didn't take both of us," I said slowly, "because two daughters raised the same way would have been redundant. He needed one raised as a Cole, ordinary, invisible and easy to use as bait, and one raised as a Voss, close to Dorian's world, positioned to inherit everything Dorian built the moment Dorian was — " I couldn't finish it.
"The moment Dorian was removed," Imogen said quietly without hesitation. "Yes."
And you're telling us this now, three days before he expects to execute whatever this is. Why."
Imogen looked at him for a long moment, and something in her face went through several things at once — defiance, exhaustion, and underneath both of those, something that looked almost like grief.
"Because I was raised to think of you as an enemy I'd
