Dargan’s POV
I wasn’t a smart person in a room in the sense that I didn’t have a high IQ or knew every textbook in school by heart. But I knew how to anticipate my enemies. My life in a fight cage had taught me that. To calculate my opponents' moves and figure out their next step. To read their body language and find their tells. To quickly figure out how their minds worked and see what they were going to do before they even knew. Hell, to date nobody could beat me in chess, because I’d won before my opponent made their first move.
The Elders and Blackwood had been no different…
I’d studied their patterns. Seen their habits and the way they handled their business. Then it had only been a matter of moving the right kind of pawns in their way, and they panicked. Keeping to their ways, the
