Chapter ONE - Weebly

Ethan wanted to challenge her on this. Surely
Sephira didn’t mean to imply that even officers of the
Crown were within her reach. But he held his tongue. If
she did wield such power, over even the king’s men,
Ethan wasn’t certain he wanted to know about it.
“I’ll ask it as a question this time,” Sephira went on
a moment later. “Have you been hired by Abner Berson
in the matter of his daughter’s murder?”
“Yes, I have,” Ethan said. “Actually, that reminds
me: Can you account for your whereabouts last night?”
Pryce rolled her eyes and nodded to one of the men
behind Ethan.
A fist to the temple sent Ethan sprawling to the floor
again and knocked over the chair. One of the men
kicked him in the stomach; another kicked him in the
small of the back. A wave of nausea crashed over him
and once more he could barely manage to draw breath.
“Get him up,” Sephira said.
One of the toughs righted his chair, and the others
lifted him off the floor and dumped him back into it,
none too gently. Ethan hung his head, gasping for air, his
elbows resting on his knees. He could feel Pryce