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“Zane is impatient. His actions make that clear. He thinks Octavia will come running after him any second now, and when he realizes she has chosen to stay, he’ll have no choice but to come out of the shadows himself,” Garrett said to the rest of Valerio’s men in the office.
I sat in Valerio’s royal chair, feeling oddly out of place, but it was the only thing that kept me grounded and prevented my anger from taking over.
“He’ll want to wait for news of the king’s death,” Damian said, his gaze fixed on the flames in the fireplace.
“Then we’ll give him exactly that,” I said, drawing everyone’s attention to me. “We’ll spread the word of Valerio’s death. We’ll hold a funeral in two days. It will be too tempting for him to resist. He won’t be able to stay away.”
I scanned the fac
