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Severin stood up "She was indentured to us?"

"Don’t you ree in front of a bookshelf He slid a leather bound logbook off the shelf and paged through it "Here we go Her father was afor us on the sly When all three of his ships went down he was bankrupt We paid off his debts and bought hiht’s service--she was acco her to the business"

Severin took the book and skies as he sank back in his chair He propped his forearms on the desk in front of him as his heart twitched while he read the terms of Elle’s indenture When she had first started out no one suspected how good she would be, so her terms were fairly loose After it becaholds and ferreting out infor he could get, squeezing funds out of theer Seventy Eight, although he had filled out the paperwork for her indenture He hadn’t even read up on her so he never noted she was female, only that she always produced results

Severin wondered at Elle’s acting ability She kneas responsible for her contract--he would have signed it before her Hoas she able to smile and chatter and pretend around hi little book aside and pulled Elle’s file out, reading the description of her currentup so quickly he sent his chair flying

"What’s wrong now?" Lucien asked

"She’s infiltrating the Verglas assassin’s guild!"

"Yes No one was very keen on taking that assignment I was relieved when she volunteered to stay on and co his fist on the desk surface

"So?" Lucien blinked

Severin could have happily strangled his brother at thatexpression because Lucien hastily back tracked

"I mean, why do you care? You’ve sent her on dozens of deadly ht twice about it," he clarified

"You are an idiot," Severin said, leaving the rooet for the arnored his brother and stalked down the hallway He needed to get to his rooreat relief, sinking into the sofa of his personal sitting rooic mirror was perched Very little of Severin’s study had been transported to the palace--Severin wasn’t positive he wanted to live in the palace, but the chateau was haunted by memories of Elle--but the mirror had made the precarious journey