CHAPTER 40 Tell Me the Truth

　　Magnus sat in the waiting room with his face in his hands as he bounced his leg nervously. To keep himself busy, Jonathon had put the entire castle on lockdown. He instructed the guards to search the entire castle from top to bottom. This offense would not stand. He didn’t care how long it took, and he was going to find out who did it.

　　"You’re not going to find him like that. You’re just going to get more people killed," Magnus said. "That’s all we did when we were hunting him, and all of us could do nothing but get ourselves slaughtered. How could any of them that couldn’t even compare to Beatrice be able to get him when he was able to get Beatrice, huh?"

　　"She’s not dead," Jonathon reasoned, "There’s still a chance that…"

　　"Did you see her fucking neck?" Magnus exclaimed as he looked at Jonathon with bloodshot eyes that were on the brink of letting the tears fall again. "I can’t feel her, Jonathon. What does that mean? Did she not drink enough? Did she even drink from me?"