Chapter 713

Silas’s POV

The dining hall was empty without the others, but it didn’t feel any lighter. If anything, the silence pressed harder now that I was alone with Malachi Grimshaw. The man hadn’t moved from his seat at the head of the table, posture straight, hands folded neatly before him as though the entire evening had been nothing more than a prelude.

I suppose it was.

“Your father would have stormed