Chapter 25
“What did you mean out there?” Korrin asked. They were in Kris’s room. She had stopped crying, but now she was curled up in her blankets. “Kris, I need to know.”
He set his hand on her arm and she pulled away from him.
“He knew what?”
“Did you know?” Kris asked, turning on him.
“Know what?”
“That he was going to be killed.”
“I had no idea,” he told her. He was being honest, but she didn’t seem to believe him.
“Who did it, then? Was it you, Korrin? Did you give the order?” she was sitting up now, leaning against the heavy canvas of the tent wall. She was pulling even farther away from him.
He reached out and took her hand. She was hesitant to let him hold it, but after a few seconds, he felt the tension in her hands die. “I promise you,” he whispered. “That I d
