Chapter 96

My ruse with Brandon had been going on for a week and thankfully, he hadn’t tried to kiss me again. He kept to his word and the day after my visit to him, Darius received a letter saying that his summoning to the hunters had been canceled and it was a mistake. I was surprised and when I spoke to Brandon about it, he said something about the hunters being effective but I felt it was more than that. Something didn’t quite add up for me. It didn’t make any sense that Brandon had such a sway over the hunters when he was just a foot soldier as he claimed. I knew he was lying about his position but there was no way for me to prove that so I settled for looking for information. I realized that Brandon wasn’t as stupid as I thought. He didn’t fully trust me yet and he never gave me information unless I gave something up as well. I kept up my façade of not knowing much about Darius so I was able to get off with telling him inconsequential facts like who was the second in command and what happ