Chapter 56

Nico

She looks taken aback, those voluminous eyes of hers are wide, and glint like emeralds in the light. “I was not lurking. I came down for a glass of water.”

“Then why were you hiding by the door?”

“I heard you talking, and you know what? Forget it, Nico. If I overheard your conversation that’s just the way it is. Perhaps next time you should keep your office door closed.”

“I have no secrets from you Lucky or anyone, if I wanted to lock the world out, I would go to my underground office.” It’s not so much an office as a bunker space, it runs under the property and has many suites and rooms coming off it, with a space that is a small office. I have a team of staff working down there who monitor all activity above ground. You can call it the engine of the house I guess; it is there to protect anyone who comes to this property.

My drone pilots are down there and come up every eight hours and swap shifts. There are two entrances, one by trap door hidden away under a large slate tile in