Chapter 264: Losing faith (2)
"You could never become a priest. I know your reputation quite well. You’re a man responsible for many of the deaths around the kingdom. You have no place being here. You belong in the underworld," said Bryce.
"I won’t be going to the underworld since I don’t intend to die. Tell me what your fellow priests have done to make the church this way, and I might spare you," Xavier presented an offer.
Bryce laughed. "You have some nerve trying to strike a deal with me. I would rather die than share our secrets with you."
"I can make that happen. It’s been a while since I killed anyone. For Cassandra, it hasn’t been long since she got blood on her hands. She tried to kill Gabriel with a holy weapon or was that someone else?" Xavier inquired.
Bryce was curious how Xavier knew about what Cassandra had done. He had long heard Xavier had eyes all over the town, but he didn’t think he was true.
Xavier glanced at the bag on the bed. "I am curious if you had a hand in it, so now you are running. Did you do something you shouldn’t have, and now you have to run? I know a place where you could be safe."
Bryce was smarter than Xavier had assumed him to be, so he wouldn’t take the offer, but it was annoying how he would be much safer in Xavier’s hands than the priests.
Bryce didn’t know what he had done to upset the priests, but he didn’t want to face their punishments. He had not lost his faith, and he didn’t want to be tortured to find it.
"I don’t have all day to wait for you to tell me what you know. Speak," Xavier ordered Bryce.