“You think you’re in the position to negotiate?” Leonardo asked, stepping forward with his teeth bared.

“I know I am,” I answered calmly, keeping my back straight. I won’t let this man intimidate me. “You need my father. You’re desperate to find him. I'm not involved in whatever bullshit he is in this time, so I can just turn my back. But both of you need me. So yes, I think I'll negotiate.”

“Alright then,” Alexander said, and his father’s head snapped to him. “We’ll hear it.”

Shocking. I thought Alexander was the brute and his father was the calm and reasonable one, since Alexander was hot-tempered and all that....