POV: ALESSIA DE LUCA VOLKOV
Three days after the council meeting, Cassian disappeared. Again.
No explanation, no warning, no discussion. I woke up one morning and discovered he was gone, apparently that was normal. At least according to everyone else.
“Where did he go?”
I asked Nikolai during breakfast.
Nikolai took a sip of coffee.
“Business.”
“What kind of business?”
“The kind involving guns, threats, and people regretting life choices.”
I stared at him.
“That doesn’t answer anything.”
“It answers everything.”
Then he left. Infuriating man.
The fortress continued functioning without Cassian. Meetings continued, repairs continued, political negotiations continued and, strangely enough, people kept asking for my opinion.
The first time it happened, I thought it was an acciden
