Chapter 156

{Ronan’s POV}

“Just one issue after the other.” I cursed.

Too much had happened in the span of a few days. I sat behind my desk, staring at the open report in front of me, but my mind refused to settle on the words.

My eyes traced the sentences again and again, yet none of it mattered as much as the thought clawing at the back of my head. Still, the report mocked me with its presence.

Lucien had threatened Mrs. Jocelyn. He had forced her hand to take Selena back into her employment. The statement was there in ink, a testimony from one of my sources inside her office. It should have been the only thing I thought about, but it was not.

The real threat pressed harder than anything else. The mole. The one who had betrayed me, who had left cracks in my walls and given my enemies too much room to move. Always keeping them a step ahead.

And even when I was the one in the lead. The universe itself seemed to mess things up.

‘What could it be?’ I groaned.

I leaned back in my chair and pressed m