When Alina rushed to check on Severine, it was already the next week.
Apparently, due to the incident on that snowy mountain, the academy had taken strict, unprecedented actions.
They had legally filed a complaint against Rhodes with multiple counts of attempted murder.
If Damien and Emily had succeeded that day, it would have been easy for them to get away scot-free.
After all, if they had left the mountain before anyone saw them, the snowy weather would have wiped the tracks, making it nearly impossible to link the crime back to the Rhodes family.
However, with Killian's involvement, nothing could remain hidden anymore.
"You should have seen the look on the Chancellor's face when the King family guards marched into the main office," Alina said.
There was that familiar vitality thrumming in her bright yellow eyes, pure and full of hope.
Severine liked this kind of Alina—bright, radiant, and shining like the sun.
