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𐬾☯︎︎𐬾⚠︎︎𐬾
Amora has been avoiding me like the plague for a few weeks now. I know why, though. When Damian sent someone to retrieve Sabrina from Amora's penthouse when we got home from the ball, Sabrina stumbled through the door a little more than tipsy and looking very pale. She told us everything that my Dolcezza had told her. Damian took Sabrina to their room so he could calm her down and sober her up a bit. I went straight to my study and pulled up the camera footage from the penthouse.
I heard it all. My gut feeling was right. Karver Ivanov is the new Pakhan. I quickly called Rowan and Damian into my office and showed them the footage. Ever since that night, I routinely checked the cameras. I didn't get any new information until two weeks after the ball. Karver is blackmailing Amora to keep his identity safe and under wraps until he's ready to attack. Sadly, that is of no use because I already know the truth and I'm much quicker.
I'll play along with Karver for now, but he's insane if he thinks that I'll let him off the hook for threatening and blackmailing my Dolcezza.
Damian walks into my study, looking a little annoyed. "Found some guy trailing behind Rina, and some other guy was spotted trailing Onyx while he was on duty guarding Rory and Lia."
"Karver is getting bold. Amora hasn't contacted me or even come near me, yet he's got people trailing Sabrina and Onyx. Elizabeth would kill me if she knew her twins were caught in the crossfire of some threat."
I placed Onyx as their guard because I want to keep him close to me and I needed to switch Elizabeth's entire security team. Onyx blends in well with Rory and Lia. He looks like he could kind of be their older brother or a cousin.
"So what do we do?" Damian asks.
Just as I'm about to answer him, there's a knock on the door. Damian opens the door and our sister steps into the room, panting. "Lana? Are you okay?"
She nods, removing her hood and mask. "I was out on a run and came straight here after I got the strangest call from Rhea." she panted out.
"What'd she say?" I asked as Damian poured her a glass of water.
"Something went missing from her office. She had a set of Russian nesting dolls given to her by Arseni, the previous Pahkan. She swore to never open the dolls because apparently he had put something in them."
Damian's body became tense as he handed Lana the glass of water. I made my best effort to keep all reactions off of my face; I don't want to tarnish Lana's reputation with our family ties and the issues our family business brings. I refuse to ruin everything she's worked so hard for.
"Do any of you know anything about that?"
"No really, a lot of artifacts that Arseni Ivanov has entrusted to people have gone missing." Damian answers her in a soothing tone. "Nothing to worry about, though."
