POV: Kesley

I stared at him.

"The woman was paid to make the accusation," he said. "When they discovered the accusation couldn't hold, that there was no physical possibility of what she was claiming, they panicked. They killed her instead. Tried to frame me for that. I buried the evidence because the original accusation was already in circulation and I couldn't prove my innocence without exposing the condition, which would have exposed vulnerabilities I couldn't afford anyone to know about."

The woman in the recording. The secret Nora had been holding. The thing that had given her power she shouldn't have had.

"Nora knows about the woman," I said.

"She...