NESSE’S POVAs early as I woke up, I called all my security guards into my living room.“Aside from my doctor, did someone else come into this house?” I asked them.They stared at each other, as though they didn’t understand the simple question I asked, and that was enough to make me upset.“Was my ex-husband here last night?” I asked in clearer terms.And then they began to stare at me as though I was saying something absurd. “Can someone freaking give me an answer?!” I fired at them.“No, Miss Nesse,” the head security answered. “Since the day he walked out of here, he hasn’t returned here,” he added.“You all haven’t been doing your jobs, huh?” I asked them angrily.“We have, ma’am. I can assure you that this mansion is properly secured,” he answered, speaking for the rest of them as well.“And yet, three men’s battered bodies were lying right here in my living room, and none of you could account for it,” I sneered at them.They looked away guiltily.“That was a one-time incident,

JULES’S POVArthur walked into my room and saw me seated dejectedly on the bed.“You have been hiding away,” Arthur said as he walked closer to me.“Haven’t you been reading the news?” I asked, snapping at him.“Yes, but should you also be hiding from me? We are in this together,” Arthur said.I curled up my lips in disagreement.“Do you think I am not affected by this?” Arthur asked. “I am being criticized and bullied just as you are,” he added.He sat close to me on the bed, but as soon as I had the urge to get some distance between us, I shifted from him.If Arthur was offended by it, he didn’t say.“That godforsaken daughter of yours is really biting more than she can chew,” Arthur continued. “I knew your dead ex-husband to be a son of a bitch, but I didn’t think that his daughter would be worse,” he added.“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” I snorted.“In Nesse’s case, she became the full apple tree,” he said bitterly.I wasn’t even concerned or bothered about the fact t

IRON’S POVI saw how enraged Hades was, and what he had been about to do, and so I simply said what needed to be said. I would have said it anyway.Blake’s eyes flashed with curiosity.“Is this a joke?” Hades asked me, forgoing whatever he was going to say that would have led to a greater disaster.I knew that he would be upset finding Blake in my chamber. Hades had been aggravated since the very moment I refused to kill Blake, and all attempt to make him come to acceptance had proven abortive recently, and I was sick and tired of trying, especially when there were more important things to handle.And I had expected that Hades, with his age and experience, would understand and act accordingly, but so far, he had gradually begun to turn into a thorn in my flesh that I couldn’t take out.“No, it is not a joke,” I responded firmly.At least, for now, what Hades had been about to do had been subdued.“We are waging war against them, and I need us to come together to talk about it before

HADES’ POVMy anger was boiling when I left the Organization. I thought that Iron was going to stop me, but he didn’t.He had the power to keep me trapped in the Organization until he got whatever response he needed, but he didn’t.“I can’t believe that after everything, he would think of me as the enemy,” I said to myself.I tried to stop thinking about it, but I couldn’t.I found myself hanging out at a bar. I got a bottle of beer, but my appetite wasn’t there. I just couldn’t get my mind off it. I felt offended and betrayed.“Iron wasn’t worried that I could have been attacked. His first thought was that I could have been attacked by this same evil enemy, but the first thing that would come to mind was that I was the attacker?” I kept asking myself.The more I thought about it, the angrier and more bitter I became.I had done way too much for Iron for him to turn against me like this. My eyes went to my injured arm, and I felt the slight pain. This was the very first time that Iro

JULES’S POV“I don’t think I am ready to step out right now,” I told Arthur and Brandon in the living room of Brandon’s borrowed apartment.We had been living here for a while now, and Brandon had catered to our every need without murmuring or frowning.Again, I was still worried about what Arthur Loreson could have done for him that made him so loyal and dedicated to him. Some other persons would have been fed up by now, not to mention the fact that he was pursuing this case for free.He hadn’t even made mention of getting paid.“Jules, you cannot continue to hide yourself here. It has been days!” Arthur barked at me.He was desperate.I was desperate too. I was tired of hiding in this small apartment and living by what Brandon could get us every day. I had also missed being a part of everything that was going on in the city and taking care of myself. So yes, I was desperate too, and even more desperate because I had a truckload of wealth waiting outside the door for me.Money that w