Forty-two:
Antero Dukas
Zale was with Sirena. He had f****d her. It shouldn’t have upset me. They were engaged. Everything was happening the way that it was supposed to. When I realized what they had been doing, I went directly to my father. “He screwed her,” I told him.
My father looked up and smirked. “Good.”
“Good?” I said. “How is that good? We don’t want them getting close. I thought that was the whole point of getting Xavier involved. To scare them off. Honestly, how they haven’t realized our ties to The Argenti yet, I don’t know. Because I’m the only one that has been connected to the kidnappings outside of her.”
“If she becomes pregnant with his child, and we kill him and his father, a young heir can be easily manipulated. At least, of course, until you can get her to fal
