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I stopped in my tracks, shocked to realize that her words had instilled even the slightest bit of doubt in me about my son

If even his own mother can’t have complete conviction in his innocence, where does that leave The Shade’s prince?

I shook the thought away, trying to dismiss all doubt that it could have been my son I had almost reached the Residences when Patricia appeared out of thin air in front of me

"We’ve found the killer"

My re"

Chapter 23: Sofia

"Brett?" I gasped, staring at Patricia in disbelief "Hoould he even fit in those s It would have been imposs--"

"The evidence is quite conclusive," she said, looking at me sternly "Just come with me"

She touched my shoulder and we vanished We reappeared a few seconds later, standing on a flat boulder directly outside Brett’s cave

I was shocked to see that there was already a crowd of huotten wind of this before even I had was bewildering The last thing I wanted was people to start doubting Brett before I’d even seen the evidence

"Why are there so many people here already?" I de back tothe search to the witches We were in the process of scouring the sea within the borders of the island when a group of hu ap in the rocks, about ten feet away I looked down to see a led limbs

"Four bodies, all piled up and squashed into the sa as she looked over the corpses

"They were found in this spot exactly?"

"Yes," she said, looking back at Brett’s cave "Less than ten feet away frore’s hoain a better view of the the hu, of course But I doubt that It’s more in their interest than ours to find the killer"

My insides writhed to see how slashed and squished the corpses were They were unrecognizable I could barely make out the start of one body and the end of the next I coveredto block out the rotting stench