Try as he might, Ragnar could not rid his mind of the contents of Lady Seraphine's last missive. The letter had been intentionally sent on the day of Hairan's wedding, carefully chosen because Seraphine knew the queen would be far too preoccupied with the lavish ceremony to suspect any wrongdoing.
In careful detail, Seraphine had written everything she had overheard while eavesdropping on Aeron's most recent meeting with the queen. The letter recounted Aeron's hate filled threats, and—most damning of all—his confession of certain vile acts the queen had committed in the past. Some of those crimes Ragnar had already suspected. Others had left him stunned, the parchment trembling faintly in his hands while he read and he found himself staring into the distance, struggling to gather his thoughts and decide what must come next.
