Doubtless he was busy. Or perhaps he and Silas had found the point where they were so far apart there could be no coming back together. If Dominic wanted nothing to do with him ever again, and he found himself living at the mercy of the Tory’s bloody Richard…Silas laughed aloud, an ugly sound in the empty room, and had to stop himself because it felt like something inside him was stretching or fraying.

