CHAPTER 411. A CAGE FOR THE QUEEN. An Important Decision

She wanted to hate him; it was much easier that way because she needed someone to blame for everything that was happening. But the truth was, hating Jhon Hopkins wasn’t that simple.

She couldn’t sleep the rest of that night, but the next morning, as soon as the sun came up, she stood in front of that bookshelf and began pulling out one book after another, reading through them. Each one had passages like the first she had read—words full of regret, painful because Chiara knew they were true.

If Jhon was there watching over her, it meant he could no longer be at the agency working. She understood that the only reason a man like him would have left the job he’d built his life around was for her and their child. Nothing else mattered to him anymore, and he was proving it.

She closed her eyes for a moment and remembered the bruises on his face and his split lip. He had to have been desperate to walk into the lion’s den of the ‘Ndrang