She Was Supposed to Stay Broken, So I Let Her Think She Had novel · Chapter 23 of 40

Chapter 23: A Price He Thinks He Can Pay

Kael keeps his hand over the folded key paper as I pull a chair beside him and ask what he intends to do with the fact already in front of us.

The waxed notice is still on the table. Tomorrow is written across it in the clerk's narrow hand. Kael's fingers hold the fold in place, though no one is reaching for it now.

'Keep it, return it to Aldren, or enter it with the council,' I say. 'Which choice are you making?'

'I have not decided whether it belongs in the record,' he says. 'It may show how the entry was concealed. It may also expose what else Aldren was told to hide.'

'Then keep it until you know.'

He looks directly at me. That attention used to feel like certainty. Now I can see the work behind it, the effort to hear what I say without supplying the answer himself.

'You are asking me to hold evidence that may implicate the archive keeper.'

'I am asking you not to hand it to Lirien.'

The amber shimmer blooms around his head. His spoken words remain measured, but another voice runs beneath them.

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