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.

on our extensive investigation, we discovered another survivor from the upheaval, apart from you and the

Who is it?” Dustin perked up

Eloise told

was the leader of his team of personal guards, and he was extremely good at what

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

end, Dustin could only watch as Cinna tried to hold back the troops and was eventually swallowed up by them. He had thought that Cinna had surely died then. Now that he heard that

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

is still alive! That’s great news!” Dustin was

is he now? Can

on the letter. But I’m afraid it wouldn’t be easy for you to meet

do you mean? Has he been captured?” Dustin frowned. “It’s not that he’s been captured. It’s just that after the

it out alive, he’s fallen into a vegetative state and

face fell. To be reduced to a vegetative state and unable to move for ten years was pure

a vegetative state, how can he help Logan figure out the truth? It’d be good enough