Selene's Point of View

It was a fragile thing, power. It was not always acquired by absolute dominance or violent force. Sometimes it was as simple as planting a seed of doubt in the right place and allowing it to grow.

And I was planting my seed today.

I sat at the lovely exterior café with a composed stance and a deliberately understated appearance. Patricia Halloway, the journalist who came sitting across from me, was unaware that she was being manipulated. Since she had called out first, wanting to learn more about Marcus Steele's complicated web of power, family, and the recent scandal, she thought she was the one who...