Chapter 56
Ric's pov
Crash!
Another crash!
I hadn't been myself since last night. I’d been expecting those stupid guards that were sent to get my son!
I turned furiously to Malek, who stood unfazed, as if the chaos didn’t bother him. Well, of course, it didn’t.
I’m the one to be crowned, not him.
I stormed over to him and grabbed his shoulders with a firm grip.
“What did you do?!”
“What did you tell them?!”
I shouted, but he stood still, unfazed—even though my hands were grinding into his shoulders hard enough to sprain something if I wasn’t careful.
“You ask like you’d ever let me interfere in whatever shits you all are planning,” he replied.
As much as he didn’t have a say, that didn’t mean he hadn’t given them orders behind my back.
“That. Doesn’t. Mean. You. Won’t. Keep. M
