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“Can you get me out?”
Eloise bit her lip. “No.”
“Then why did you bring me here?” Helen threw her hands up.
Eloise shrugged. “Because perhaps I can help?”
Helen pinned her with a stare. “You just said you can’t get me out.”
Eloise took her hand and guided her to the chair in front of the hearth. “Sit. First, tell me, how did you get here?”
Helen looked down at her hands. “We were in Paris, my husband and I… Some bandits threw a bag over our heads and managed to transport us across the Channel. And now I do not even know where my husband is!”
“St. John?” Eloise frowned.
“Yes! His name is Greyson, Greyson St. John. Do you know him?”
“No, I am afraid I don’t. I just heard him mentioned…” Eloise grimaced. “Do you know why you are here? Did the people who brought you here tell you anything?”
Helen bit on her lip and shook her head. “No, I have no id—”
She halted abruptly, and Eloise leaned forward. But Helen just clamped her lips shut and looked down.
“I cannot help you if you do not tell me,” Eloise said. “Trust me, I will not judge. I am not a perfect person who has never made a single mistake.”
Eloise grimaced as she thought of her earlier interlude with Hades. That was probably one of her biggest mistakes. She felt shame wash over her, and she was probably beetroot red. Luckily for her, Helen didn’t look her way.
She was still staring at the carpet when she spoke. “My husband… he… He seduced a young girl a few weeks ago. He invited her to a masquerade ball, where she died.”
Eloise’s mouth fell open.Ava.
Everything was falling into place. The clandestine meeting her brother had with Keyon in his coffeehouse dungeon, Eloise’s own abduction; everything that Keyon did was for the sole purpose of finding people responsible for Ava’s death and punishing them.
“Our cousin told us to leave the country, that it was dangerous staying here, and he was right,” Helen continued, not noticing the change in Eloise’s mood. “But they found us, anyway. And I do not condone what my husband did, but he did not kill anyone. He doesn’t deserve to die.”
Helen finally raised her head, tears shining in her eyes. This tiny, fragile lady fought so desperately trying to save her unfaithful husband.
Something twisted deep in Eloise’s gut. There was no way Keyon was letting Helen’s husband go.
He was doomed.
