I stared at her in confusion.
“What men? Who was found dead?”
She swallowed before answering.
“Conrad's men,” Sage said.
Everything inside me seemed to stop.
I didn't move, and for several seconds, I couldn't even blink. One of Conrad's men was dead. One of the men who had come to Silver Hollow for the negotiation was dead.
My mind suddenly became unbearably loud.
I had seen them yesterday. I had sat in the same room with them. I had watched them speak to Jason, watched them listen to his proposal, watched Marcus push back against his terms while Elias eventually accepted that they would have to take Jason's proposal back to Conrad.
And now one of them was dead.
A thousand thoughts rushed through my mind at once, colliding with one another so quickly that I couldn't hold on to any
