Chapter Twenty-Five
Author: Menz Raider
last update2025-01-27 15:33:57

There was a round of applause in the entire hall as Lyana walked out to deliver her speech. She took the microphone and stared across the hall, holding all her emotions together. Her anger, her fury, her rage and her regrets. When her eyes meet with her father's, she saw him telling her somehow not to let her emotions get to her. The Astanas were finally here, the Rodriguez needed desperately an alliance with them. Earlier this night, before the dinner, Federico had told his daughter. "There is a war coming, Lyana. Whomever has unlocked the Salpinx, they will stand against our family. If we stand with the Astanas, then there is better chance for us."

Lyana's eyes left her father's, removing his words from her head. She stared at Adrian Blood, the man who had literally popped out of nowhere and saved her twice. The man who seemed ordinary at first, but at the same time seemed very mysterious. The man who dared to challenge Luther Astana's authority. Adrian's eyes were telling her to go
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