Eunice's Pov I had already gone through every angle before anyone realized it, and I knew exactly where they stood, how they positioned themselves, and how long it would take them to react if I forced the situation out of their control. Daniel believed he had me, and his men moved like they believed it too, and I could see the discipline in it, the assumption that they had already closed every possible exit.They hadn’t. They never did. It looked stronger from the outside, and people liked to believe that once a space was surrounded, once numbers were in their favor, everything else would fall into place. But that only worked when the person in the center followed expectations, and I never did.I stood still, not because I had nowhere to go, but because I was waiting, and there was a difference between being trapped and choosing not to move. My gaze moved across the room slowly just to let them see what they wanted to see.Daniel stood directly in front of me, his presence calm, his
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