[Violet]
LUCIEN VARGSWARD SUSPECTED OF MURDER. ALLEGEDLY.
I stared at the screen. "What?" The word escaped in a breath and I blinked twice, hoping I'd read it wrong, but the bold letters remained. "What the hell does that mean?"
Lucien hadn't left the house all day. I knew that. He'd spent the entire day barely moving from the living room. So how the hell could he be suspected of anything?
And then it hit me.
"The double," I mouthed, my fingers reaching to cover my mouth. He let me have the phone without protest and suddenly, it all made sense.
Of course. It made too much sense. The doppelgänger—Lucien's double—had likely been the perpetrator if there was any evidence. Sure, he’d been on bad terms with Marielle and the public generally disliked him.
If I hadn’t known Lucien better,
