Chapter 587

He paused just long enough to let the tension settle, then glanced toward Corin.

"I'm not here to defend the Crown Prince," he said, calm but deliberate. "If he's guilty, then he answers for it. No exceptions. But this whole thing lines up a little too perfectly. It feels staged. Like someone set the board in advance and waited for Dorian to step forward and drag all of this into the open."

His ey