Mattew met the team leader’s gaze, but he did not answer right away. Instead, he calmly removed their hands from his arms and straightened his sleeves as if nothing unusual had happened.
“My identity?” he repeated, his tone relaxed. “I’m just a security guard.”
Dante let out a short laugh and shook his head. “Yeah, right,” he said. “And I’m the king of this city.”
Elias did not find it funny. He shook his head seriously and stepped forward. “No, Mattew, be serious,” he said. “You just turned down an offer from Ethan Blackwood, and Magnus, one of the most feared men around here, treats you like someone above him. That kind of thing doesn’t happen to normal people.”
Mattew let out a quiet sigh. “Let it go, Elias.”
But Elias did not back down. “We can’t just let it go,” he said firmly. “
