Chapter 73: Death of a Friend

The letter was simple and precise, all too cutting for Aileene's heart. It wasn't written by Dmitri, as he was her normal contact. Instead, it was the cold handwriting of Marquis Leon, a noble that was a trusted aid to her father. After her parents' death, he had been reluctant to let her suffer with political matters a dukedom had to attend to, but she had convinced him that she was capable of dealing with everything that was thrown at her. Even to the point that she was able to delegate tasks to those that followed her. He was the first person outside of her group that she had told the truth about her parents' death and her deal with Kinlar.