Watching and Waiting

Dima's POV

The oppressive silence of my quarters offered zero justification for dragging Massimo Bellini’s daughter into my stronghold.

Dawid called the move reckless. He wasn't entirely wrong. Impulse was a luxury I despised in others and rarely afforded myself. Everything in my empire operated on cold, calculated logic. Between managing Katya's recovery and anticipating Massimo’s inevitable re