Page 40 of Unleash Hades (Ungoverned Spaces #5)

Calissandra

Six months Later

E verything changed fast for us. The boys started school, and in the midst of their first semester, Richard Davenport was found Guilty in Absentia for murder, racketeering, blackmail, conspiracy to human traffic and so much more.

Then there was the charge for conspiracy to commit murder.

He was trying to hire an elusive assassin called the Ferryman to end my life, with the request it look like a suicide. Thus far, he had always refused him, but he thought he could throw enough money to entice the Ferryman to take the job.

That was in his back pocket the whole time.

I had been closer to danger than I ever dreamed.

Bellamy and I broke the story but omitted any mentions of the Underground Circuit. Why? Well, in his words, “Because no one will believe it, darling. Anyway, they’re irrelevant.”

The more flippant he was, the less I believed him.

It was clear to me that he was not all he seemed.

As for me, I moved back to the house in Leeds, and began spending more time with my sister and her family. Caledonia Security was hired to guard our growing family, with Hugo, of course, at the helm.

Even the boys had discreet bodyguards now. Before, Richard had said guards were a waste of money, and that no one would try to kill us. He was mostly right, since the real danger came from within.

Hugo no longer watched me through a screen, but slept in my bed, sneaking out before dawn to get reports from the overnight shift. Stalwart and certain, he was always by my side.

My duties as the head of Laurent Media overwhelmed me, at first. But all I had to do was look at my bodyguard, to know that it would all be alright. That I had walked through fire, and come out stronger for it.

Other than sleeping in his embrace, he asked for nothing, but greedily took everything I gave.

I was waiting for him to propose to me, but it hadn’t happened.

I don’t even know if my Legionnaire was built to think of things like matrimony. Maybe he thought it was unimportant, since devotion meant much more than a piece of paper and a few vows.

But I’d get him, one day.