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Only brute force kept my hands from curling into fists at my sides. “You know exactly who.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He had the gall to shake his head as he slipped his phone into his pocket. “There are a hell of a lot of female panthenites running around the world.”
He was going to make me say it.
Out. Fucking. Loud.
My top lip twitched, my teeth gritting. “Ada. Where in the fucking hell is Ada?”
His eyes narrowed at me and he leaned back in his chair, crossing his right ankle over the top of his left knee. “You have excavated all the rubble of your castle?”
“Yes.”
“What did you find? How many bodies?”
“Enough.”
“A number.” His jaw set hard, his glare challenging.
“Forty-two.”
Forty-two of my people dead in the collapse of Netherstone. Staff, guards.
His eyebrow cocked. “That’s the number of people your daughter killed in her latest tantrum?”
My lips pulled tight as blood seeped onto my taste buds from biting my tongue.
“Any bodies of note?”
I heaved out an incensed breath from my nostrils, my look diving to the corner of the room for a long beat. A long second and I dragged my glare back up to him. “Just two bodies that weren’t found.”
“Oh?” His brow furrowed. “You sure you looked everywhere?”
“I’ve spent the last year combing through every speck of dust that was in the rubble of the castle. So yes, I’m pretty well assured I’ve looked everywhere.”
He nodded, silent.
“Enough with the feigned ignorance, Triaten, it doesn’t look good on you.” He wanted to drag this out? Then I would fucking drag this out.
I moved to the chair opposite him and sat, throwing my left forearm casually onto the table. “Where is Ada?”
“I don’t know.”
“But you know something.”
His shoulders lifted. “She contacted me six months ago. Said she needed to disappear. I arranged it.”
“Then where in the hell is she?”
“I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know?” I leaned forward. “You know every fucking step every fucking panthenite makes.”
“You think too highly of me.”
“Or not high enough.”
He chuckled. “I don’t know where she is because that’s the way I designed it. I have fixers, a slew of them around the world, and each one has every resource they need at their fingertips. It goes two layers deep. Three layers in extreme cases. I put in a request to their network and I don’t know who reads it, who arranges it. I don’t know which one of them takes the job. None of them know either.”
