Chapter:- 123

Ady was the one that actually tried to cheer him up with something else than kind words and chocolate.

"So. Heard you tried to dispatch Ci with fish knife?" he asked conversationally. "Want another go at it? Somewhere more... private shall we say?"

Ethan would have been lying if he said he didn't consider it. But it wouldn't do shit for the real problem. Him.

"I'll let you the pleasure. Didn't you and Simon were keeping her around for a special occasion anyway?"

"Ah yes... Well Jen said, "only crazy, homicidal maniac keep people around to kill them later". He's such a buzzkill sometimes." Ad corrected, a fond expression on his pale face. Ethan had speculated about Ad and Jen for a while, until Alec had announced that he and the young Omega were dating more seriously now, around a year ago.

"Well, he's not wrong," Ethan mused, "though if you did kill her, your position would be finally secured."

"Appealing to me through politics Wil? So, you do want her dead!"

"Everyone wants her dead.