LOGINGEORGINA'S POV, The safe house was on the outer edge of the city, tucked behind a row of buildings that had been abandoned. It was exactly the kind of place that didn't exist on any map anyone important looked at—unremarkable, forgettable, useful. I had three of them positioned across the kingdom
GEORGINA'S POV, I had known Anil for long enough to understand that his greatest flaw was also the thing that had once made me want him, he actually believed in things. Not strategically, not as performance, but genuinely, the way people believe in things when no one has yet taught them how expensi
ELIAS'S POV, I had been in enough rooms like this one to recognize the architecture of a trap before anyone bothered to spring it. Karlson was the provocateur, that much was obvious within the first few minutes of watching him work. He had the particular gift of people who had spent decades inside
ELIAS'S POV, I was seven years old the first time I saw her. My father had taken me to one of those gatherings. The noble families dressed it up as celebrations but were really just exercises in demonstrating power—who stood where, who spoke first, who had the finest clothes and the most polished
ELENA'S POV, Something shifted before anyone said a word. It wasn't loud or obvious, but I felt it, the way a room changes when danger decides to walk in and make itself comfortable. Andrew's warning still echoed in my ears, low and controlled but sharp enough to cut through everything else. Stay
ANDREW'S POV, Something ate at my nerves once we realised that neither of us were ready to move back. It pulled my mind from them and their smug looks. I thought about the bigger picture, the dirty politics that had ruined this kingdom for years. Every deal hid a knife. Every promise was a trick
RYAN'S POV,I wanted nothing to do with the crowd around me anymore.I was too tired to fight again, but I knew things wouldn't go down easily with the members of the council or the elders from my pack. I threatened war on a foreign country without consulting them on the matter first. They kept quie
GEORGINA'S POV,“We will win together, Julian. This is not our end.”He didn't look convinced, and I could already see his major concern written all over his face. The way his brain worked couldn't have been more different from mine. Anyone in his place should have been thinking about taking advanta
ANDREW'S POV,“You speak boldly for someone who required President Ryan's intervention to steady his own people,” he said smoothly, which had the people behind him cheer. “Do not forget, Prince Andrew, that Ryan is not a king like your father. He is the President of a democratic nation, elected by h
RYAN'S POV,The meeting hall was way colder than the entrance hall. It lacked both the excessive decorations and the loud drama.Long oak tables formed a wide circle beneath the sandstone ceiling, carved with symbols that predated the kingdom itself and even survived the fall of the monarch. This ro







