Chapter 53

Unknown P.O.V.

"This wasn't part of the deal," he snarled.

The woman's eyebrow rose as she looked on at the two men arguing.

"My demands have changed," the second man said, crossing his arms.

"If I get what I want, I will give you access to the castle. If you can't make that work, you can find someone else."

The first man growled.

"Do you realize what this means we have to do? What we'll have to risk to get you what you want?"

"Of course I do."

The woman stood to her feet as she saw patience running thin between the two men.

"We'll do it. But we want inside that castle sooner than next month, or no deal," she bargained.

A smirk rose on the face of the second man.

"Done."

Evelyn's P.O.V.

"I don't want to look at them."

I sat on the bed, pulling my knees in tight against my chest. Liu took the vase of flowers and put them in the bathroom, closing the door as she left them on top of the vanity.

I could see outside the open bedroom door as five burly men picked up the lifeless body of the