NICOLAI POV
Fire burned around me, heating the air, but the heat of anger that pierced through my veins was fiercer. All I saw was red, and the blood of the men I'd spilled clung onto me, dripping down to the floor as I walked up the stairs toward the one room that truly mattered.
Bodies lay strewn everywhere, most of them the invading soldiers. They had attacked my mansion knowing fully well that they were all going to die. But why?
Was it the Angrav? Did they plan the attack? Because the Black organization had tipped them off, I would not be around... But the tattoos on most of those men had been familiar... They were Xavier's soldiers. The soldiers I'd told Vicente to get rid of.
I strode towards the hall where I'd kept Brea, and seeing the dead men that littered my path made the
