Chapter 44: Why You?

Regardless of everything I had on Gwenna—the overheard conversation, the note, the book—I couldn’t piece together why she was here. Where the hell had she and Orene been this entire time?

I looked behind her to spot him, but he was nowhere to be seen. An uneasy feeling grew again in the pit of my stomach.

“Gwenna, how nice of you to join us.” Ariston smirked, his gaze darkening again.

“You said I’d be the one to end it,” she sneered, ignoring his greeting. She looked at Leo with utter disgust. “To end him. I brought you back. It’s the least you can do.”