He sighed and rubbed the sides of his arms .
"We would deal with this." He said. "Next time I want you to let me know before you do anything like this again."
And then he started to leave when she stopped him. "How did this even happen? The people that knew about it were few. It was just me, you and the guards and my sister. And when I told you I was leaving this morning, I only told you. The only other people that knew were Hildegard and Logan. And they would never betray me."
Roland felt stiff.
When Cherry had come to meet him. He had casually told her that Rose had left just to get her off him.
Had she had a hand in this?
He knew she was dangerous and would do anything but this was extreme.
He thought about it, and it began to make sense.
If it was Cherry that had arranged for Rose to be poisoned, she would have ordered for Bernice's family to be killed to cover her tracks.
He was going to have to confront her head on.
