CASSIAN MORETTI Jared bent low behind my chair, his voice pitched for my ears alone.“I escorted Lady Chelley back in, exactly as you requested.”I didn’t even turn my head, just let my glass tilt in my hand as I asked, “Did you see Romano anywhere?”He hesitated only a breath before replying, “No, my lord. The garden was empty.”I let out a slow sigh, the kind that carried more weight than sound. Romano was a snake, and snakes didn’t show their scales unless they wanted to. Games like these are easily discerned by me, but the details of his game I’m yet to know. He struck me first, more like a finished man, more like my stepbrother Lucas… men like him with access, who will abandon their responsibilities to chase after their obsessions. They do not know the line of responsibility and desire. It only explains why he came all the way for a collaboration: the way he looked at Chelley, the way he held her, mindless about decorum.Still, Jared was efficient, and if he hadn’t seen him, i
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