SERGEI’S POV So kids, tell me something. If you had the chance to grab real power —absolute power—would you take it? No nooo, don’t answer yet. THINK about it first. Don’t give me the same tired, righteous answer people always do. I want YOU to really consider it. What If it meant breaking a few rules? What if it meant stepping on the necks of people who deserved it? People who never saw you as anything more than a pawn? Would you say no? Or would you take it? I meant every word I told Alaena back there, at first maybe it was about her, maybe it was about proving something. But now?—nowww Hahahahahah It’s about me. ME. It started by chance, yes chance. Who would’ve f*cking guessed it? We were on a spy mission in the Eastlands, me and two of my most trusted men. One Monti

