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.

extensive investigation, we discovered another survivor from the upheaval, apart from you and the Drunken Maniac, “He might be able to

Who is it?” Dustin perked up

Eloise told him

and he was extremely good at what he did. When

Cinna had cleared a way out for him with no regard for his own safety. Then, when the pursuers caught up with them, he stayed alone

and was eventually swallowed up by them. He had thought that Cinna had surely died then.

had been badly wounded, he was strong enough to endure

Shaffer is still alive! That’s great news!”

is he now? Can I

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

“It’s not that he’s been captured. It’s just that after the fight, Cinna had been

a vegetative state

to a vegetative state and unable to move for ten years was pure torture

Austin could help to complain. “If Cinna’s in a vegetative state, how can he help Logan figure out the truth? It’d be good enough if he doesn’t burden