THE PHYSICIAN’S LEDGER
Cassian set me down in my bedchamber and slammed the heavy oak door shut behind us.
I whirled around, my chest heaving as I marched straight up to his chest plate. "Why did you pull me away? She was about to give me the killer's name!"
"Varn’s executioners had a council order," Cassian said, unbuckling his sword belt with steady hands. "If I drew steel down in those cells, they would have executed us both."
"So you left her to die!" I yelled. "When I touched her, I saw it, Cassian! I saw Julian burning with fever in his bed right before the blade hit his chest. The prophetess said the official reports were lies."
Cassian’s jaw clenched tight. "The court ledger lists Julian's cause of death as a sudden fever."
"Then the official record is a lie," I said, steppin
