An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

“Help me?” Surprised to hear that, Dustin appeared skeptical. “With your identity, Your Highness, I reckon it’d be better if you stayed out of it.”

It was clear that the upheaval in Aylka a decade ago could not have happened without royalties backing the mastermind And Eloise was royalty up. herself. Dustin found it hard to believe that she’d help him.

“What? Do you think I’m incapable of helping you, or do you simply not trust me?” Eloise asked.

“I’m just afraid of troubling you,” Dustin answered vaguely. “I understand where your concerns are coming from, Logan. But I’m sincere in offering my help.”

Eloise looked at him earnestly as she said, “I am no longer the eldest princess of Dragonmarsh. I am now the Princess Consort of Theswe, your stepmother.

“We are a family, and what you do affects me too. I think what I’m saying.” you understand “I get it, but I’m just curious how exactly you plan on helping me?” Dustin asked.

“We have been secretly looking into what happened all those years ago and gathered lots of information about it.

“Though we have yet to identify the real mastermind behind it all, we have some inkling.” Eloise pulled out a letter and placed it on the table as she spoke.

apart from you and the Drunken Maniac, “He might

Who is it?” Dustin perked

Shaffer,” Eloise told

sure?” Dustin leaped out of his seat. Cinna Shaffer was the leader of his team of personal guards, and he was extremely good at what he did. When

no regard for his own safety. Then, when the pursuers caught up with them, he stayed alone to buy Dustin

tried to hold back the troops and was eventually swallowed up by them. He had thought that Cinna had

serious. “Though Cinna had been badly wounded, he was strong enough to endure it, so he didn’t die. He was subsequently saved and managed to

That’s great

is he now? Can I

here on the letter. But I’m afraid it wouldn’t

been captured?” Dustin frowned. “It’s not that he’s been

it out alive, he’s fallen into a vegetative state and has been in a coma all

to a vegetative state and unable to move for ten years was pure torture beyond what any man could

you’ve said so much, but it’s not much help, right?” Austin could help to complain. “If Cinna’s in a vegetative state, how can he help Logan figure out the truth?