Nyx's POV
Three weeks passed, and the trail stayed cold.
Whoever had cleared that chamber knew exactly what they were doing. No evidence left behind. No witnesses. The maid who'd been acting strange disappeared the same night we found the empty room, and no one could say where she'd gone.
Warrick doubled the guard rotations. Kade interviewed every servant in the castle. I spent hours in the medical wing with Margot, going through records and trying to find any pattern we might have missed, but we found nothing.
We didn't talk about what almost happened that night, the night Kade knocked, the night Warrick was inside me and then he wasn't. We'd scrambled apart like guilty children, dressed in silence, and followed Kade to find Corvin. By the time the interrogation was over, the moment h
