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CHAPTER 78. The Next Step

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  “What happened?” I asked in a whisper to Rodrick.

  “The boy confessed.”

  “Confessed? Are you talking about the drug?”

  Rodrick gave me a perplexed look. “How do you know about that?”

  “Anne mentioned it might be a theory but…it’s confirmed?”

  Rodrick nodded. “And he also confessed to killing Declan.”

  “Wait… Amir did it?”

  Before Rodrick could respond, I could see movement from the corner of my eyes. I turned to watch Isaiah pull Amir’s hands off him and shove him away. The young boy stumbled back and fell onto his bottom.

  “M-My Lord, please forgive me! I did what I did for your sake. I wanted to protect you!”

  “You drugged me, Amir!” he growled, the indifference from earlier twisted into anger. Amir flinched from Isaiah’s intimidating glare.

  “That’s because I had too…I was forced to do it, you have to understand, Lord Isaiah, they would have hurt you!”

  “They?” I whispered to Rodrick.