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“Clarice and I are taking the kids out to play on the hill after breakfast if you want to come,” she says, with Hunter in her arms.

“Yep, I will be down in a minute. Where is everyone eating?” I ask her.

“Ballroom, we are taking a few orphanage kids out with us while the weather is nice. A storm is meant to hit this afternoon, and they will end up stuck inside if it sticks around,” she tells me. I nod.

“Okay, I will be right there. I just gotta get changed,” I tell her. She nods, turning and walking away with Hunter. I finish dressing Tyson, and Dustin watches him for me while I quickly change and mindlink Kyson.

‘Can Peter come to the hill with the kids? Trey and Dustin will be with us?’I ask him. Yet, after last night, we have all determined that Peter is no longer a threat to me. It was sad, really. Everything he did was for his mother, only for her to abandon him again. He seriously believed if the King got rid ofme, she would be allowed back into the castle where he could see her.

‘Yes, but stay with our guard; I love you,’he tells me.

‘I love you too,’I tell him, cutting the link off. We make our way downstairs. A handful of children, Clarice’s boys, Hunter and Tandi, are already here when Trey brings in Peter. He sits at the table with his face down.

Yet, after about twenty minutes, he is animatedly playing with a few orphanage kids while I wander over to the whiteboard to look at the added parts Liam and Gannon put up about Sia and Vivienne. Liam comes over and leans on the table next to me as I stare at it. Liam helps me read the newest parts since I can’t recognize the wording.

“So, did you find out why Sia was kicked out of the Vermillion pack?” I ask Liam, who nods.

“Yes, last night I rang the alpha of Vermillion, who pulled the records from back then,” Liam tells me, wandering over to the table. He picks them up, but Dustin takes them from him before he can show me.

“What does it say?” I ask him.

“They were kicked from the pack for Vivienne’s works in witchcraft and the illegal dealings with Wolfsbane.”

“Illegal dealings?” I ask.

“Yes, though, we never found out who her supplier was. After digging around last night with the King’s resources, we are pretty sure she was the one supplying the Hunters with wolfsbane,” Liam tells me.

“One thing I want to ask. When did you meet Abbie? Gannon told me she has memories of her grandmother in Ravana Pack. But you don’t remember meeting Vivienne despite Abbie saying you were there,” Liam asks, grabbing one of the markers and moving toward the board.

“I was about five years old. All I remember is that Abbie’s family was being chased by rogue bandits. They were attacked; Marrissa and Jordan helped them, and after that, they stayed with us.”

“Why?”

“Abbie said she met with her Grandmother a few times when she was a child.”

Liam shrugs but adds it to the board.

I nod, turning back to the drawing board, and Liam walks me through what everything says again.

- Azalea was born.

- Three years later, Ester falls pregnant with Peter.

- Landeena Kingdom falls. Azalea is missing. Marissa is missing.

-Trey spent three months in Valkyrie Hospital for silver poisoning.

-Trey was released from the hospital in May and searched for Marrissa and Azalea.

- Ester returns to the Valkyrie Kingdom and starts working as a castle servant. Started in the stables.

- Trey returned to the Valkyrie Kingdom and started working at the Mill.

- Trey failed the guard trials.

- March Ester moves into the castle as Claire’s personal servant.

- May-Marrissa starts out in the stables at the castle.