Invisible

Alexander stared into space, lost in thought while trying to ignore Elisa’s annoying pacing at his bedside in the guestroom.

Her sneakers squeaked at some point and his lips twitched.

“Would you stop that?”

It had been four days, four fucking days and the woman has decided that she would pin herself to his side for the rest of eternity. She was worried about him and his health, yes, she didn’t want him to work which was also understandable because Elisa was a woman who didn’t understand how running an empire worked.

The second the people who plotted against him realized he was still bedridden, they would see it as an excuse to attack and yes, they would know if he was.

He had been avoiding acknowledging that fact because it would change everything for everyone under him and it would change the way he saw the people he considered family. There was a spy among them, a spy that has so skillfully hidden himself or herself and blended in completely and then continued to stay in the sh