*Alessandro*

I had been on edge ever since the meeting with Tallon. Although keeping secrets and lying to people wasn’t necessarily a new thing for me, it didn’t make it any less difficult when it came to my right-hand man, Luca. We were meeting for lunch, and I was finding myself struggling to keep from telling him about Tallon’s plan to fake out the inner circle.

Everything in me told me that I could trust Luca, but I couldn’t risk going against ...