Days prior to the interrogation, the Test was still marching on in the Bramble Forest.
That night, Grimm slipped out of his tent and left Lefay with the Bead. His mind was bent on the third mirror parachute and the Desperators.
Grimm's thoughts and actions had not escaped Lefay's observing eyes, and it seemed to her that the scale in Grimm's heart was tilting to gaining power rather than caring for her. Yet, she withheld from intervening. She was assured that love, if taken or maintained through violence, wouldn't endure.
"Would he choose power over me when the day came?" Lefay forced a smile.
Things that followed had been set forth in previous chapters. When Sun Child was edged out of the vying for the third mirror bounty, Grimm filled in her position.
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