Viola watched as he froze for a moment, and even without seeing his eyes, she could imagine them darkening behind the blindfold.
"She killed them... I should have known," he muttered with bitter irony. "I have even more reason to want her head on a platter now. I suspected everyone of being responsible for their deaths, but she was the culprit. She wanted to stop me from meeting you, and yet I still met you."
Sebastian's hand pulled her even closer as he began to recall the grief and pain he had gone through when he lost his parents in that accident, especially the memory of his mother's head resting in his hands.
Nerrisa had been causing damage in their lives even before she made herself known, and not once had he thought that the sea witch had been after his life and now his unborn child, because she wanted to finish his bloodline.
