KERRI I walked into the lounge a vicious woman. I was angry and I tended to be cruel when I was empty. But for the sake of keeping appearances, I plastered a smile on my face and focused on the man whom I had business with. The Monarch's first Beta. Isaac Monarch. The rest were there. The scheming elders. The Beta's whose greed was going to be his undoing. There was a woman among them. She looked worried. A foolish emotion to have when you were close to men as savage as this. I paid them no mind. My goal was to give Valentine's title away. If I was going to kill Valentine Monarch, at least the one that Devin was so attached to, I had to change the sort of world that Valentine orbited. "Hello Isaac," I greeted. "Hello Valentine," he smiled at me. His smile hid all his teeth. Which

