Caelan had a fairly good idea why the nobles were so bold in their disdain.
“Because the rumors have finally settled.”
Until recently, they had feared him. They believed he was the mastermind who brought down Avarice, the organization that, along with Leontius, had controlled the East’s vast underworld.
But that was no longer the case. In the years since he’d become a count, Caelan had done nothing of consequence.
The Devereux family, since
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