Blades Of Illusion: Crown Service #2 (30 page)
Kansid smiled, “You were a pawn, mercenary. Just like your father was before you. A stupid pawn who couldn’t keep her nose out of empire business, but a pawn nonetheless. But, you’ve managed to bring up the man we’ve been looking for, so I’ll tell you.”
Matteas Hillan stood silently beside her, still as a statue. Kansid stared at him with the utmost distaste.
“You stand beside the infamous Elan Mayfair.”
The gleeful look on his face at capturing Elan told Sara that whoever this Mayfair was, he was an important prisoner. But she didn’t know who that was. No spark of recognition, not even the faintest possible idea flowed through her mind of what that name meant to Kansid.
That was apparently visible to Kansid, because he frowned and said, “Do you truly not know?”
“I assure you, sir,” Sara said diplomatically, “I’m as blind to the reputation of Elan Mayfair as you are to the true nature of my father’s actions.”
Kansid glared at her, but apparently chose not to take affront. “Then you’re even more foolish than I thought. When you got into that little fight with Castile’s men, I was sure you were a fool, but I still needed you, so I held Castile back from pursuing you. I even killed Lester to ensure you would not fail in your mission to find Mayfair. After all, you were the only one I knew that Elan might be willing to meet.”
Ezekiel’s voice came from the corner, filled with pain. “And how’d you know that, you spineless man?”
Irritation flowed in Kansid’s eyes as he answered the question, “We long suspected that there was an Algardis soldier liaising between the Kades and Fairchild. We didn’t know who or why. Therefore we needed to not only flush him out, but prove beyond a doubt it was Hillan once we captured him in the act. Torture couldn’t do that. But a second Kade would. There was only one person we knew that could make him reveal his identity. Vincent Fairchild. And now there’s two.”
With a deep and pleased breath Kansid continued on, “In front of you, Sara Fairchild is the man we’ve been searching for many months.”
Nissa slipped out from behind the man with a devilish smile on her face. “The man who has been trying to murder the empress and seize her empire.”
Sara looked over at Elan’s expressionless face. “I’m afraid you must be wrong,” she said. “This man has information on my father’s death.”
“That may be so,” acknowledged Kansid, dropping a hand to grip his sword. “But you do not know the whole of who he is.”
“Why don’t you enlighten me?”
She was tired of all the secrets, lies, and more secrets. She would have her answers
tonight
, even if she had to kill to get them.
Kansid smiled victoriously. “We’ve just captured the elusive leader of the Kade mages, the illusionist mage formerly known as Elan Mayfair.”
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