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Escape

“You are determined to make a mockery of me, of everything our family built?” Johannes asked.

“I want to set us both free.”

“And how many lives are you willing to take to get it?”

“There will be no lives lost.”

He chuckled, but it sounded forced. “You heard Leon. A future of peace. The moment you request an annulment, peace will be a thing of the past. It will be the fairy tale that mothers tell their children in the hope of helping them fall to sleep at night. War will rage, and no one, not us, or Leon, can guarantee who will win. We all have enemies. Your father’s are now ours, and our enemies are now your father’s. We are united by blood. By marriage. Take that away, and all that will remain is war.”

“You’re lying.”

“I’m not, Laura. Do you think I entered this marriage lightly? I did not. I know what is expected of me. One day, men and women will look toward me, not my father. I will be the Boss of the Augustus outfit. It will be up to me to decide who lives and who dies. This unit
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