Celia
My aim had been spot on. Those three had been there since before I landed and found the skin remains. We were all a step behind the culprit. Meeting my daughter again under these circumstances was not how I wanted things to go. Nexus had been up to his dirty tricks again, fooling not only me but Connie and Stella too.
This leftover burning flesh pile was just like his favorite M.O. I couldn’t help feeling that something was off about it. The real Ward, who was Stella’s second mate, no one knew what had really happened to him. He wasn’t an easy person to kill, so, had Nexus been using a shell this whole time? I needed to find some answers and soon. The skin that lay scorched and rotted here was not Wards, but someone else.
Raising my eyebrows at the three goofs who stood before Ph
