Ace Kane certainly harbored no personal vendetta deep enough to intentionally destroy Itsuo Tokugawa; his primary objective had been far more pragmatic and cold-blooded. He had merely intended to use the young Heir Apparent of The Tokugawa Family as a convenient logistical pawn to facilitate Angelina’s departure from his private sanctuary. Given his intimate, often exhausting understanding of Angelina’s predatory nature, Ace knew for a certainty that she would never actually find a man like Itsuo Tokugawa—a functional redundant in the high-stakes world of global syndicates—appealing. However, he had calculated that once she was "discovered" by a member of a rival clan within Ace’s private quarters, her own sense of professional preservation would force her to leave to avoid a diplomatic sc
