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“No There were cryptic es and a couple of phone calls”

“And they just left you alone after your wife died? Even though they didn’t get their information?”

“I was a ain by then I told theand take ive in to his blackmail”

“Funny how you grew a conscience after my mother died” Annabelle’s hands clenched at her sides as she tried to keep her emotions under control “How could you do that? Do you kno much we loved and needed her?”

The older rew shiny with unshed tears and his face creased orry lines “I told you I didn’t mean for it to happen Itit was an accident”

“And then what? You ?”

Drago’s eyes narrowed “What choice did I have? I couldn’t go to jail Not with my wife so ill And it was an accident”

The aped The otten aith it for so uilty conscience to trip him up, it’d been easy

“What did you do with my mother’s jewelry?” Perhaps it was stashed in the palace and could be used as evidence

“I buried it”

“Where?”

“II don’t know It was a long tio”

“And you just stayed on at the palace, serving the king and acting like nothing ever happened?”

“What else could I do?” A tear splashed onto his weathered cheek “The king needed me I couldn’t let him down”

But you could kill his sister without batting an eye? Annabelle wanted to tell Mr Drago about the devastation he’d caused, but she had Grayson’s safety to think about She couldn’t agitate thishe could say that would bring her mother back to them