Chapter 0121

Chapter 0121

I didn’t know what David planned to do to Ella, but I knew wouldn’t have been good. He was obsessed with her power, her position. To him, Ella was just a pawn. And I had no doubt David wouldn’t hesitate to break his toys if it suited his twisted agenda.

David’s connections to the Rogues were relatively new, according to my sources. He must have thought manipulating Ella would be easy, and in his desperation after losing control of her, he began reaching out to less- than–reputable friends to help fix what he had screwed up.

But it clearly wasn’t working for him. He was too brash and arrogant to navigate the criminal underworld. If he kept pushing his luck, he was going to get himself killed messing with the wrong people.

It took a cold, calculating person to survive with one foot in civilized society and the other in the underworld. David lacked both the intelligence and the level–headedness to pull it off. That only made him more dangerous to Ella.

And then there was Amanda. She seemed to have an even darker side than David. She’d been laying low since the wedding, and I couldn’t blame her.

either. But I didn’t trust that she was gone for good. My contacts were keeping a close eye on her, and the minute she

But she had become important to me, and I would use every

it or not. There was something

had always swirled around me. Whatever the truth about me was, it didn’t matter. What

that persona far more palatable.

what I would do. The agreement was simple: I would help her, and she

I became king. Until that moment, she was my top priority. Anyone who threatened her was a threat to me, and anyone who made her unhappy would answer

went

a moment later with the phone to her ear. She had a

would like you to bring me home. He wants to talk to both of us

hour,” I said, loudly enough for

turned her attention back to the phone. I went into

blurring the lines between the reality of our situation and the farce we had agreed to carry

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