As soon as Liam uttered the word 'betrayed,' the whole table went still, and Isabell felt like her stomach had fallen through her chair and the floor beneath it. She'd been present the last time a traitor had been brought before Ashlynn for judgment, and she'd watched as Ashlynn used Sir Rain's sword to execute the man that an impromptu tribunal of knights had declared guilty. A tribunal that had included both Sir Ollie and Sir Hugo…
"She ran," Ashlynn said flatly, though there was something in her tone that suggested she wasn't surprised. "A mother took her child and ran in the middle of the night because she was so afraid of what Ollie might do to them. Or because she was afraid of what an alliance with the Eldritch and me would mean for her and her family."
