Chapter 76
"How did you do it? The decoys at the airport, the fake signature... You even had Doris play the traitor so perfectly that even I fell for it. Were you ever actually in danger tonight, even without my help?"
Nyx kept her eyes on the road as a faint, terrifyingly calm smile touched her red lips.
"In the underworld, Alex, if you aren't the one holding the leash, then you're the person wearing the collar. I knew Silas was alive the moment he started buying up all those western holdings six months ago. I let him think he was outsmarting me. I let him recruit Vaughan, who was easy to bait, and I let him think he had turned Doris over to his camp."
She glanced at him, with amber eyes that shimmered with a dangerous intelligence.
"I also planned to use this opportunity to confirm whether you were truly an Awakened or not. How do you think the meeting place between Doris and those two men happened to happen on the day you went shopping?"
