Chapter 83

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"My, my!" Dominic's deep voice rumbled. "How you've grown."

I kept silent, my free hand curled into a fist.

"Should I call you brave or arrogant for coming into a lion's den without backup?"

"Who says I came without backup?" I said and at my cue, my men came out from the bushes on both sides. One group shot electric tasers at the beasts behind me, incapacitating them and bringing them to their knees while the others turned their guns on Dominic and his I sighed in relief cause plan F was a success. I was simply the distraction while they climbed over a wall to get in.

Dominic smiled, seemingly unfazed by the turn of events and I knew why. His army will soon be here and I had twenty minutes tops to get out. "I guess you are as smart as they say."

I glanced at Adam, whose hair was gripped by Dominic and spotted a huge bleeding gash on Adam's collarbone. "Let him go." I demanded, "Your men in exchange for mine." I motioned to the incapacitated beasts behind me.

Dominic huffed before bursting into a cackle. To my surprise, his men joined in and that made me frown. This wasn't the way things should have gone. My captain shared a worried glance with me.

"You think you can use my men against me?" Dominic asked, his face the epitome of amusement. "They are all loyal to me. Any one of them will jump off a cliff at my word and they'd do it without batting an eye. That's loyalty beyond your wildest comprehension."

I instantly realized I needed a new plan. "Well, unlike you, the lives of each of my men matter so please, let him go. He's innocent."

"Innocent?" Dominic snorted "I caught him stealing from my garden and I don't know about the law over in your kingdom but here

in the North, stealing is punishable by death." He bared his teeth. To make a point, Dominic dung a claw into Adam's wound and his cry echoed in the air, sending a flock of birds scampering in flight.

I took a deep breath to control my anger. "He was under my orders."

"I don't fucking care." Dominic's clawed hand moved up to Adam's throat. "He dies by my hand."

I said. "You really don't want to

brow arched.

something you want and I will give it

you can possibly give me to change

brow. "Even if it's the last letter your father wrote for you before

then like a light bulb switching on, his face morphed into one of rage. "You liar! There's no such

before striding to my car. After retrieving two items from the glove comparunent. I went back to face Dominic. Then I showed him two envelopes with the seal of the North King. "He wrote one for you

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with the dawn of realization and for a moment,

broken man.

you?!" He whispered, physically trembling with rage. How dare you keep this

hair tighter,

seek you out and hand you your father's

laughed bitterly, shaking his head. "You cruel, cruel

letters or not? But this time, I want my boy, a phoenix flower and him."

take and looked up at Dominic as if

mask. "You only have two things to barter. So you

took a deep

If I went for the flower, then I'd be betraying Nicholas and if I went for

checked my wristwatch. Eleven minutes left

in exchange for

you're going through all this trouble for a girl." Dominic's brows pulled together in curiosity.

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