Chapter 110

Lysandra’s POV

My mouth tightened.

Jace was not innocent. I knew that. Sadly, politics did not care about innocence as much as proof, timing, and who benefited from what.

I had acted to protect myself.

I knew that.

Still, the guilt did not disappear.

Varek had not even introduced me formally yet, and already I had brought him poison, scandal, a missing noble heir, a humiliated allied household, an