Chapter 561

The chill of the night air, fraught with a tension as thick as molasses, wove through the space between them like an unwelcome specter.

Avery’s heart plunged the moment he saw his beloved Evadne standing with Thaddeus, the joy of her presence crashing down. around him, shattering like fragile glass.

“Evadne, my dear, you’ve come?” Mrs. Chambers‘ eyes sparkled with a tender gleam, and she looked as if she would rise from her wheelchair to embrace the girl if only her legs would allow it.

It was curious how Mrs. Chambers, whose memory often faltered when it came to her own son, never failed to recognize Evadne’s striking beauty. Her affection was a poorly kept secret, transparent as glass.

“Mrs. Chambers, good to see you,” Evadne greeted, bowing her head in polite deference.

Thaddeus wrapped a protective arm around Evadne’s waist, his gaze sharp and unyielding as a blade of ice, vigilant of Avery’s every move.

Thaddeus‘ stoic expression, clutching the hem of Avery’s shirt

moment with a smile.

only to Evadne, he acted as though Thaddeus wasn’t

of Mrs. Chambers. “You know the darkness you’ve conjured, the blood on your hands better than anyone else. With Eden

so slightly, his gaze loaded with a love as

is Evadne talking about? I don’t understand,” Mrs. Chambers said, her confusion evident.

that you don’t understand, as I’m equally perplexed,” Avery reassured, hands gently massaging his mother’s shoulders, his angelic features belying the venom within. “Evadne,

Thaddeus, a tempest swirling in his chest at the memory of he and Cassius’s near–fatal encounter on Star Island

the puppet master of

What, a quicker death?

felt Thaddeus‘ hand trembling on her

to avenge her brother and Thaddeus, to breathe relief to Debby and her husband far away in Helgen. But this was not the time for trivial verbal victories. She sought a reckoning,

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