"Enjoy!" Murphy said, opening bottles of champagne, celebrating with Zeeb and Dante. "I tell you, by morning that foolish Prince will be at my my father's palace trying to attack him..and then, my father will retaliate, and that is how we will take them down."?
"Superb!" Dante grinned. He emptied his tenth bottle.?
Murphy had taken them to the casino again to party. Believing he had everything all planned and going smoothly.?
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Gonzalo laid quiet, looking at the sky. He knew Ashina was probably surprised by this reaction. From the corner of his right eye he could see her sit upright, glaring at him.?
What had she expected? Apparently, the betrayal from his mother recently had brought out the fragility of how he felt an
