All Chapters of His Deadly Obsession: Chapter 111 - Chapter 115

CHAPTER 110RAFAELThe elder line rang at half past nine, while Cassian was in the shower and the kitchen still smelled like the coffee I hadn't finished. I took it in the study and shut the door. I already knew the voice. I didn't sit."You've been difficult to reach," he said."You've been difficult to miss.""Don't be clever. Phase two was supposed to move this month. We sent instructions. You didn't answer them. The council notes stopped. The men we placed for you stopped hearing from you. Explain it.""There's nothing to explain. I'm done."He was quiet long enough that I heard someone else shift on his end of the line. "Done with what.""The plan. The vote. The seat. I'm not progressing it, and I'm not going to. You can take my name off the list.""You don't take your name off a list we built. You were raised for this. We pulled you out of that house, we trained you, we kept the line alive when the palace said it was dead. You don't get to decide the work is finished because Ame

CASSIAN I took out my phone while she calculated the total, briefly checking my messages. Maya had sent me two texts asking whether I'd eaten and one asking if I was still looking at the comments. I ignored the last one and replied that I was out shopping, then put my phone away just as the stylist turned the tablet toward me.I reached for my card, but Rafael caught my hand before I could tap it against the reader."What are you doing?" I asked.He moved my hand away from the machine and took out a black card from his wallet. I'd never seen it before, and I was fairly certain I would've remembered a card that looked like it belonged to someone who bought buildings for fun.He placed it on the reader.The machine approved the payment almost immediately.I stood there with my own card still between my fingers, staring at him while the stylist continued arranging the bags as if nothing unusual had happened."Since when do you have that?"Rafael put his wallet away. "Since before I met

CHAPTER 113RAFAELA week after the shopping trip, I was beginning to suspect that the silence from the palace wasn't accidental.On Tuesday morning, I stood alone in the study with the door shut, my second phone in one hand and the other resting against the edge of the desk. It was a little after seven, and Cassian was still asleep upstairs. I'd tried Dante twice since the previous evening, both times through numbers he knew not to ignore without a reason. Neither call had gone through. Lucien's line rang until the recorded message played, while Kade's didn't ring at all. I tried Dante once more, waited for the call to end, then lowered the phone.I wasn't going to keep calling the same people from the same device. If they were being monitored, repeated attempts would only make things easier for whoever was watching. If they weren't being monitored, the lack of response was still a decision someone had made.Last week, Lucien had answered Cassian in less than three rings. He'd laughe