Tyler answered, "Yeah."

Hera narrowed her eyes.

"You're the Grandmaster of Astral Nova?"

He put a finger to his lips to shush her and said cryptically, "That's a dangerous question to ask. It could get us into deadly trouble."

She frowned. She knew Astral Nova was a powerful and mysterious organization, but she never thought it would be so dangerous that she would run into deadly trouble if she asked about it. Then again, Tyler might not be lying if Astral Nova was so powerful that even the four influential families would bow to it.

And to think, Hera had unknowingly flirted with death when she repeatedly attacked Astral Nova's firewall the last time.

"The organization's inner workings can be highly political at times, but you can dig up any information you want through its network within minutes. So, how about it?" Tyler probed.

He was still smiling, his gaze beguiling and full of lethal charm. With a face like his, he could make anyone say yes.

Hera stared at him and asked, "So this is the third condition?"

Hera saw it anyway. She

join it. He could also be playing her

as simple as his personal file had made him out to be. He was more than an illegitimate son who had been adopted by the Presgrave family to be trained and appointed as heir. "No, thanks. You said it yourself, I could get killed just for asking the wrong questions,"

to join

at the mention of her being weak and helpless. He had been threatened at needlepoint by her

to think she might need a

the offer just yet. Go home and sleep on it,"

out

me your number, and

you should

man before her. She wondered about his identity and how he knew so much

dimmed from inactivity, he tapped on

at Hera and prompted, "Come on, give me your number. Maybe one of these days, you'll learn that Bernard has been lying to you. You're welcome to join me if that happens." Hera unlocked her phone and exchanged numbers

Celestial Gardens, Bernard was reviewing the worksheet on his computer in his study

that moment, Samson knocked on

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