While Violet was being taken care of inside, Alaric and Asher had no choice but to wait for her outside.
"What were you up to last night? Did you finish building the device?" Asher asked, and Alaric tensed at once.
He slowly turned to face Asher, his brows narrowing with sudden suspicion.
"Why are you so interested in that?"
Asher's eyes narrowed at once, his lips pressing into a grim line. "Because you were occupied with Zuru and they wouldn't let me in yesterday when I came to check up on you." His gaze sharpened. "Or is it the fact that you're suddenly staring at me as if I'm the one who stole the device?"
There was solid tension between the boys now as Alaric slowly, cautiously straightened, a darkness suddenly entering his eyes.
He lifted a brow. "Did you?"
Alaric didn't want to believe it, but after the Queen's words yesterday, his mind had been anything but quiet. And now that he thought about it, the device had gone missing right after Asher and Violet's visit to him.
