AVENGE (17)

WILLIAM

I didn't like keeping secrets from my Amelia and I certainly didn't like the fact that I had broken a promise I made with her but what was done had to be done so all I had to worry about now was that Amelia never found out about my betrayal. I would never let her know that I had gone behind her back and ordered my men to track down and kill Dimitri. I knew she had heard a bit of my conversation with Thomson earlier but I also knew she wasn't completely sure what we were talking about and I planned to keep it that way.

I sat in my throne, twirling a shimmering glass of fresh blood as the metallic taste of my previous gulps lingered on my taste buds. My eyes never left the blazing fire that roared