CHAPTER 366. A CAGE FOR THE QUEEN. Smart people are rarely happy

John looked at the report in front of him for the tenth time. He had told himself he wouldn’t be intrusive—after all, Chiara had her own life, and she wasn’t a helpless girl. She’d managed for over two decades without him, and Heston Darroze wouldn’t be her first or last enemy. Yet, there was something about this woman that John couldn’t quite explain. Maybe it was the fact that she didn’t need him, or maybe it was her intelligenc