Chapter 109. A Looking War

I sat still in my office and allowed my mind to visualise what I had seen when I had first opened Lord Robert's library. As my mind took me through what I had seen, it dawned on me that I had seen the black veil; it had been tied loosely around his wrist but it had disappeared between then and transporting him to the council.

What was going on? What did the black veil symbolise and why was Jonathan so scared of it?

Anxiety did not make me return home so I sat behind my desk all night trying to fit in the black veil as a piece of evidence.

Perhaps Lady Asher was the black veil? After all, she was at the top of my suspect list after Jonathan.

Very early in the morning I went to Jonathan's cell to see if he had made it through the night.

But he had not.

He was hanging from the roof just like his father had and I did not need to touch his body to know that it would be cold.

He had been visited by the black veil.

It was tied on his w