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 intelligence, her strength, that hidden sweetness, her down-to-earth sense of humor...

John could spend all night listing the things he liked about Chiara, and he didn’t need to search his memory to know that no other woman had ever captured his attention like this. So, he steeled himself and opened the report. For the past few weeks, one of his men had been tracking the chef’s expenses, and as soon as John saw those names, he called his investigator.

"Plot every one of these expenses on a map, especially