Caroline followed behind Cres, her eyes scanning his back.
'Our collaboration had already fallen apart. He was the one who betrayed us and ruined all my plans, yet here he is, telling me news from the Royal Capital. What is he really after?'
Caroline was no naive little girl. She couldn't believe he was acting purely out of the goodness of his heart.
She recalled the moment just before, when he had grabbed her daughter Unis's wrist…
'A forward gesture like that had never happened during our past collaborations.'
'Could it be that he went to all this trouble, causing the fall of the Lawrence family, just to possess my daughter and me?'
Caroline's brow furrowed. Assessing the situation, she knew that in their current predicament, if he truly made the demand, she couldn't refuse. Nor would she.
'It wouldn't be much different from the past, anyway. Just swapping one man for another.'
'But as a Necromancer, would his motives truly be that simple?'
