YILENA HOLT POV

That fucking bitch.

I scoffed and stared at the wall, teeth grinding.

"So… you're just going to take all that money for yourself, huh?"

I snapped off the recorder, my fingers tightening around it.

No wonder she'd shoved me out the second Lucien stepped through the door.

She didn't want me knowing Kaida had been taken. She wanted to keep me blind because she was a schemer, through and through.

And as for Lucien.

He must be thinking his desperate words were what convinced her to call her father for the ransom before she came up with the idea of hiking it, but I knew better.

I...