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Gerard lifted his brows. тАЬBy concealing your identity so you could murder three young women in their
own home, among other crimes too numerous to list.тАЭ

This gathering was too orderly to actually stir or murmur, but Tremaine detected a sudden shift in
interest and a new alertness around her; she suspected that the members of the Rienish Embassy to
Capidara hadnтАЩt known this.


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Three young women. IliasтАЩs cousin, GilieadтАЩs sister and stepsister. Tremaine hadnтАЩt known them,
couldnтАЩt remember the names she had been told. But she knew how close Syprian families could be and
how painful that loss must have been. Not the least because Giliead and Ilias both felt responsible for
failing to see through IxionтАЩs deception. And since GilieadтАЩs sister had been all that had stood between
the Andrien household and the more acquisitive branches of the family, it was a loss that continued to
have repercussions. Tremaine knew why Gerard had brought up that crime rather than any of the many
others that could be laid at IxionтАЩs door. Ilias and Giliead had seen it happen, and if the Capidaran
government could be persuaded to hold a hearing, they could testify to it.

Ixion, of course, seemed impervious to the accusation. He said simply, тАЬI was angry. I felt I needed to
revenge myself. Something you could perhaps understand in your current circumstances.тАЭ

Gerard sat back, his lips thin with distaste. But he had made IxionтАЩs character public and it would be
impossible for the Capidarans to ignore.

A voice, quiet but amused and clearly audible to the entire room, said, тАЬItтАЩs been my experience that
such тАШindiscretionsтАЩ are invariably committed by men who are enraged by their own sexual inadequacy.тАЭ

The room went silent. Tremaine choked on an indrawn breath and clapped a hand over her mouth to
keep from ruining the moment by gasping for air. The speaker had, of course, been her father.

Ixion contemplated Nicholas in bemused silence. Nicholas, slouched on the bench, chin propped on his
hand, gave him back a thin predatory smile.

Ixion lifted a brow. тАЬYou find such behavior cruel and immoral, of course.тАЭ

тАЬNo,тАЭ Nicholas answered with a slight shrug. тАЬI find it dull and unimaginative. As well as enormously
predictable.тАЭ

IxionтАЩs brows drew together. Tremaine read that look with unexpected clarity. Nicholas wasnтАЩt what the
sorcerer expected and Ixion couldnтАЩt decide if he was facing an opponent or a kindred spirit, and it
clearly intrigued him. He said slowly, тАЬThat could be construed as a challenge.тАЭ

тАЬA challenge?тАЭ Nicholas didnтАЩt bother to seem innocently surprised; he said mockingly, тАЬTo an entirely
reformed character such as yourself?тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs enough.тАЭ Delphane cut off IxionтАЩs response firmly, throwing a forbidding look at Nicholas. тАЬWe