Elys grabbed the side of her dress and her hands turned into fists. She had thought of the possibility, but she really did not want it to be the truth. However, Cordelia's report about Sir Noa's activity deemed to have proven her suspicions.
"Did you recognize who it was from the vampire clergy?" Aleksander asked the maidservant.
Elys raised her worried face and turned towards her husband. They had shared the same suspicions, and she saw that he too had a worried look in his handsome face.
The way his jaws tensed seemed to have caught her eyes, and somehow, Elys was reminded of something she didn't want to remember at all. She shook her head to clear her mind, and refocused herself into the conversation at hand.
"I didn't recognize the name, but if I can see them again, I can point them out with ease," Cordelia replied to the young king's inquiry.
