Act Fourteen - Interlude: Planned Betrayal

‘Jealousy is one thing. Insanity is another.’

    In the end, I couldn’t allow my own actions to be the downfall of Roger Smith. I could not afford to let myself be the one brought to justice, but it didn’t mean that I was willing to let him fall into Alex’s little trap either. I thought, assumed, his reasoning for attending the Saint’s Day Ball was to find the statuettes that I stole from the museum in order to draw him to Hope Dorland. The easiest way I could think of to deter him from going to the Ball was to return them.

    How very, very wrong I was.

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