Chapter 12 · Moonclaim - Chapter 12: The Heir's Sin

Victor's voice kept going.

"The one you need to watch isn't the old king. He's already dead. It's the heir."

Ivy's stomach dropped. She looked at Leon.

He was staring at the screen like it might bite him. His jaw was locked. The blue glow from the monitor made the scar along his neck stand out worse than usual.

"Ten years ago," Victor said, and his voice had that tired edge it always got when he talked about the massacre, "there was a young wolf at the site. I saw him. He had my blood on his hands. Not metaphor. Actual blood. And he had the crown mark."

Leon's hand curled into a fist on the desk.

Ivy took a step back. Her heart was doing something awful in her chest. "Leon."

"Let me explain—"

"You were there?" Her voice cracked. She hated that. "You were there that night?"

"Ivy, listen to me."

"Answer the question."

He didn't. He just looked at her, and that was answer enough.

The recording kept playing. "I don't know if he was the one who gave the order. I don't know if he pulled the trigger on the others.