Chapter 58
Liam heard about Callie's release from the holding room secondhand, through one of the household guards mentioning it in passing, and the news settled over him like a slow, simmering heat that only grew hotter the longer he turned it over in his mind.
Released. Early. To assist the general, of all people, with correspondence.
He had expected her confinement to break her further, to leave her desperate and pliable by the time he finally came to collect his answer. Instead, from what little he'd observed since her release, she seemed almost steadier than before, moving through the house with a new, quiet confidence that unsettled him more than he cared to admit.
He found her three days later, catching her alone in a narrow hallway between the kitchen and the servants' stairs,
