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“He’s all right. Charlotte, Regent is all right. He’s alive.”
“A-alive?”
“Yes, baby girl. He’s alive. Fucked up. But alive. Victor got him help quickly, but he’s going to be fine.”
“Oh, God. Oh, God.” She burst into tears. Nico held her close, rubbing her back until she managed to calm down.
Someone had poisoned her brother.
“We need to go. I need to see him.” She tried to scramble off Nico’s lap.
“We can’t do that, baby,” Liam said to her.
“What? Why?” she asked. “I want to see him. Is he in the hospital?”
“He’s already discharged himself,” Liam told her. “But he doesn’t want you there.”
It was like a blow to her heart.
“For your own safety,” Liam told her quickly. “They know who did it, but they don’t know who she’s working with yet.”
“Sh-she?”
“Alice, the maid. She gave Regent the tea. Prepared it herself.”
“Oh my God. I can’t believe she’d do that.”
“She was always weird,” Nico said.
“I’m going to call Peter,” Liam said. “Get him to give me updates.”
“Why would you call Peter?” she asked, confused and unsure why they’d want to speak to one of Regent’s guards.
Then she noticed that both of them had strange looks on their faces.
“What?”
“Peter actually works for me,” Liam confessed.
“He what?”
“Yeah, I paid him to keep watch over you.”
“You what?” Her mind spun.
“How mad are you?” Nico asked. “He didn’t give us day-by-day updates or anything. Just kept watch over you for us and told us if anything major happened.”
It was an invasion of privacy. But it wasn’t like there had ever been much to report.
“You should have told me.”
“It just slipped our minds,” Liam told her, watching her closely.
“Regent is going to kill you.”
“Which is why I vote that we don’t tell him. Who’s with me?” Nico held up his hand and they both stared at him.
“Actually, that’s probably for the best,” she added. “Is he going to stay working for Regent?”
