Leonardo

Everything is getting interesting. The look on Scarlett’s face as I departed made everything crystallize; it clicked the final piece of the puzzle that had been nagging at me for weeks.

She and her father were never close—not from the start, according to my spies. And with the way things stand now, everything is working in my favour.

I turned around and left with my Beta.

“Where is he?” I asked, walking as fast as my legs could carry me.

“In the throne palace,” Giovanni replied, struggling slightly to match my frantic pace.

“Good.” We walked in tense silence, the corridor stretching before us like the path to my...