ATHENA’S POV“A conference meeting is coming up and I am one of the speakers. It happens this Friday, and I want you there with me by my side,” Nesse told me.I jotted down what she said, but she stopped talking and looked at me.“Why aren’t you using the pad?” She asked me.“Um, my hands are a little wet right now, and it will not work well on the screen. But once it gets really dry, I will transfer all of it to the pad,” I lied.Nesse stared at me, and for a second, I thought that I had said something out of context; an obvious lie, because the truth was that I had never used a pad before, so I might have said something that was way out of line.But then she continued, much to my relief.“You have to ensure that your fingers are dry at all times, because you will definitely not be writing on paper for me during the conference,” Nesse stated. “I cannot have you embarrass me on that day,” she added.“Yes, Nesse,” I responded diligently.She continued with dishing out instructions, and

IRON’S POV“What is keeping her?” I asked worriedly.Usually, Athena would have been back from working for Nesse hours ago, and she certainly would have come to give me the day’s report.Whether or not something happened, the assignment was that she would come to me as soon as she returned to the Organization to tell me all about what happened.The last information she gave was unsettling, but since she didn’t have the full information yet; she hadn’t been able to listen to all the calls that Nesse made, I instructed her to keep close watch, and that if there was anything that looked like danger coming close to her, she was to alert me without delay.This was past midnight, and Athena wasn’t back yet.I hadn’t forgotten that Nesse had a thing for working really late in the night sometimes when we were married, but then again, certainly not until past midnight.Athena was strong and skilled, and I shouldn’t have to worry about her, but I was, and it wasn’t something I could shake off.

IRON’S POVAthena eventually returned the next evening, and as expected, she came right to my chamber.“What happened?” I asked her.I had been so worried sick, and the only reason why I didn’t leave the Organization to check things out for myself was because I was busy checking out all the things that Blake had mentioned, and it did most of my day.The moment I saw Athena, I became filled with deep relief.“I have been working,” Athena answered, bowing her head. “Lord Dante,” she added softly.“This wasn’t the agreement,” I said, trying so hard not to show how worried I had been, but it was really difficult.It was as though Athena could read right through me because I could see her lips twitching lightly.“Don’t you even dare,” I warned her, and she thinned her lips to prevent her from laughing. “What is amusing?” I asked her.“You have been worried sick, but I wonder who you have been worried about; Nesse or me,” Athena teased.“Don’t start with me right now,” I warned her. “You ne

NESSE’S POVI stood in front of my mirror and looked at my expression.The last couple of days had been crazy. Pressmen and reporters have been tailing me everywhere, seeking interviews, but I had deliberately ignored every one of them.“Nesse is a pretender and a liar. Days after she stated with confidence that her mother wasn’t going to marry Arthur Loreson, Jules goes right ahead and marries him barely a week after the death of his wife.”“Nesse and her mother, Jules, are both gold diggers, and for now, their victim is Arthur Loreson, a poor grieving husband who definitely does not know what he is doing.”“Isn’t it surprising that just about two days after Nesse went to visit Arthur in his house, her mother weds him? She never disclosed what she went to his house to do, but from the turnout of things, it was obvious that she went there to pressure him into setting a wedding date.”“She is not the woman everyone thinks she is.”“Nesse cannot be trusted. She is a predator.”The news

IRON’S POVHades and Blake already left to destroy Vince, and I was deeply worried and troubled.“Maybe I should have gone with them,” I muttered to myself.Alone, I would have been able to kill Vince. They all knew that individually, they weren’t a match for me, which was why they came together to form a war against the Organization, but I couldn’t because I only just return to take my place, and it wasn’t time yet for me.Waiting until it was time to start handling these assignments might take longer than expected, and I didn’t want to wait when I could destroy them. Waiting could also mean giving them the grace to plan another war.I had never been this worried about Hades executing an assignment, and even now that he had a firm backing in the case of Blake, but something inside of me was just too restless to ignore.“Lord Dante!” One of the Titans called as he hurried into my chamber.“What is it?” I asked him.He was so frantic that I feared for a millisecond that the Organizatio