The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 238

Chapter 238

The man shook his head. “Look, lady, I just planned to stab the guy. Kdon’t know nothin’ about toxics or whatever you just said.

“Toxins,” I corrected, pinching the bridge of my nose. My mind reeled. “Okay. So you didn’t coat the blade with poison? You’re not bullshitting me right now?”

“Why would I?” He shrugged, rattling his handcuffs a little with the movement. “I’m gonna go to jail anyway.”

I sighed, lowering my hand, and studied his face. Like Sera, he seemed genuinely confused. He really had no clue what I was talking about, which made no sense. In my past life, the blade had been coated with wolfsbane toxin. It was the toxin that killed me in the end, not the cut itself.

Unless…

The toxin hadn’t been applied after the stabbing, had it?

I shook my head, resolving to think more on that later.

“So,” I said, “let me ask again: who hired you?”

He looked at me for a moment, then sat back in his chair and pressed his lips together. I knew we were done.

“That’s all I’m getting, isn’t it?” I asked.

“I don’t know nothin’ else.”

I looked at him for another moment, then went to the door. The guard came in and took the man away. I took his knife for testing, just to be safe, carefully tucking it into a bag without touching it with my bare

hands.

Sera apologized four times in the span of about three minutes after the man was taken away. I assured her that I believed her, truly, although she kept apologizing and assuring me that none of this had anything to do with her.

“I will find out who hired him,” she said. “You have my word on that. And anything I find out, I will bring straight to you.”

“Thank you,” I said.

Lucas, standing beside me, gave her a small nod. “We appreciate you handling this so quickly.”

With that, we said our goodbyes and walked back out to Lucas’s car. The sky had gone fully dark by then, and I realized with a small jolt that I had been gone from the festival for hours. By the time we got back, it would be over.

I got in and stared straight ahead while Lucas started the car.

“So,” he said, pulling out onto the road. “You want to tell me how you recognized him?”

I had been waiting for this. “I’ve seen him before,” I said.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify