Chapter 557. Why Did They Take Her?

Back at the hotel, the group gathered in Caitlin’s room to discuss what had just happened.

Sebastian couldn’t suppress his frustration as he paced. “You don’t think the King has some twisted interest in Caitlin, do you?”

James frowned. “Come on. The guy’s in a wheelchair. What could he even do to my sister? It has to be about the attack on the Prince.”

“I don’t buy it,” Sebastian said coldly. “That’s just a cover.”

He didn’t like any of this. Even though Caitlin was going by Esme, even though her face had been altered, she still had that figure, that presence—she was hard not to notice. And to someone like the King, who spent all day cooped up in a wheelchair, who knew what kind of dark fantasies brewed behind polite smiles?

Sebastian had been in that same position once—immobile, helpless, angry. He knew how twisted a man could become when robbed of control. That kind of internal damage didn’t just go away.

“If that’s really what’s going on, what