The Golden Bait

Cassian

When Alden arrives driving a horse and carriage filled with gold, I take him immediately to the medical tent to see the stinking carcass of the lycan messenger.

“Poison?” I ask.

Alden puts on gloves and starts examining the body. “So it would seem. You said you heard a cracking sound before he began convulsing?”

“I think from his mouth,” I say.

With a nod, he pries open the lycan’s jaw. “H