Like his incompetence wasn’t the reason that my son was gone.
I didn’t speak, having already learned that a lecture to him wouldn’t change anything. Instead, I walked right up to him and punched him straight in the face.
His nose cracked, broken.
“What the hell!” he gasped as he stepped backwards, covering his face with his hands.
“This is the least of what you deserve,” I snarled. “You are a failure of a bodyguard, and I will see you removed from service.”
I couldn’t spend any more time on him and turned to the rest. “Where was the last place you saw Leo?”
They directed me to the spot, very near the edge of the courtyard and one of the side, servant entrances. Someone could have slipped in through that door.
Gods.
“Raven,” said one of the warriors who had been combing the perimet
