Chapter 7

Orion thought, 'Aron. He's the chief servant I trust most. And he also serves the Queen Mother.'

Clue by clue, connection by connection. It was all thanks to Vita's blunt honesty. Her words tied everything together into a seamless web.

Lila had poisoned him. Eileen had meddled in politics.

Aron had been embezzling funds. Zosime had acted as the insider. And Windsor had been backing them from the outside.

'So all my "illness," my "isolation," my "powerlessness", they're just part of the web they spun around me,' Orion thought.

Now, the web was laid bare before his eyes. It was…