Chapter 166

The air suddenly became thick and the bile rising in Ivory’s throat, seemed to intensify as she waited for Lucien to answer. However, no answer came. After what felt like an eternity, Ivory pressed. “Did you? Did you kill Peter and everyone on this list? And what for?” She glanced back at the paper, her frown intensifying as she said. “Experiment? With the devil’s breath?” Her voice was sharp, holding a reprimanding edge to it that Lucien normally would have felt bad when he heard it. But not today. In fact, Ivory had only just now noticed, it wasn’t just his smile and warmth, but everything about him seemed different. Even the air surrounding him had changed, a silent warning that if she kept pressing down this path, she’d discover things that are meant to stay hidden, for her sake. But Ivory ignored all that. To help with hidden secret! The potential maker of her one of her problems, was standing right in front of her. If he killed Mendez, then that only meant that he was the one who