CHAPTER 115

MARTIN'S POV

She intrigued me. She was no ordinary person. I didn't see any of these coming at all; I had been taken by surprise. A spy usually should know most of the details about their targets in advance; so much digging would have been done beforehand. But Alicia had insisted that she would reveal them in bits as she pleases. For whatever reason, best known to her, she decided that. It didn't make any sense to me, though.

Why would she hoard these beautiful pieces of information that seemed to embarrass Crystal? Her being a slave before was not sad or miserable to me, although it was a sorry sight to behold. I perfectly understood that. It wasn't like I didn't feel pity for her, I sincerely did. In fact, I was taken aback by her revelation. Which made me wonder how she was able to climb her way to the highest peak in the royal palace. How did a mere slave and most likely an omega do that? She was at the lowest of ranks, and yet somehow, she ended up with an alpha. Not just any Alp