Chapter 3

Upon hearing his words, I noticed Silas swallow hard, a flicker of tension in his eyes. The gazes around the table bounced between the two of us. Everyone had assumed Silas had bid for the medicine at the auction for my father, but the truth took us all by surprise.

The room fell silent for a moment, and feeling the sympathetic looks from everyone, I decided to break the awkwardness with a smile. “That’s how it is. Those medicines were incredibly rare; it took me a great deal of effort to find them. If I had been just a couple…