Kassian leaned back in his seat, running his thumb over his lips. His mind kept flying off to things entirely unrelated to the paperwork he had been going through, so he just gave up on it. Blaine kept throwing him glances as if he knew he wasn’t working anymore but kept quiet.
Going behind Raena’s back and scaring off her buyers was going to be easy now that he knew their names. One was on the board of the Trade Union he had become part of and the other was a recently appointed Marquis who had made his fortune in trade and who also owned The Golden Deer. Both seemed more than ready to pay the exorbitant amount Raena was asking for the restaurant, so they probably thought they could return their money in full and go beyond with this venture. They probably would have if they kept doing wha
