Chapter 263. A Complicated Past

Lexi and Allen made their way down to the cells, with Lexi still grumbling loudly about Bertram’s incompetence. All she wanted was answers and the fact that everywhere she turned there seemed to be another hurdle to cross was starting to piss her off.

Aoife didn’t deserve to suffer as she had and none of them really knew whether or not she was alive or dead. Especially with her uncle’s involvement. If Eromaug was behind both Aoife’s and her own mother’s death, she hated to think what else he was capable of putting them through.

Lexi vaguely remembered him from the few occasions that they had met when she was a child and even then she had been overwhelmed with just how uneasy he made her, and her mother feel. She shuddered involuntarily and pushed those memories aside as her face hardened.

At least now she knew why her mother had distrusted him and disliked the time that Lexi had

spent with him, and why her father always seemed to hide his fury whenever Lexi h