~RYLAND'S POV~
The thread on Voss's death went cold within two days.
But while Cade was pulling at it, he found something else. The kind of thing that happens when you're looking for one piece and your hand closes around a different one entirely.
The merchant's name came up in the supply records, going back further than the current investigation. Cade tracked him back through three transactions, then four. Two of them matched the timeframe around the wolfsbane poisoning. One connected, at a remove, to a supply chain that had reached Matthew.
Not proof. Not anything that would hold in a council chamber. But enough of a thread to follow, and enough to make the knot in my chest tighten into something that had a shape.
Then the dismissed guard talked.
