Chapter Eighty- Franco Centauri Gervais- 163 yrs old

Franco couldn’t believe how difficult it was to sit there and sentence his own offspring to his dungeons. Edger promised him Adriana would stay separated from the rest of the prisoners. He didn’t want her harmed or killed by a prisoner trying to seek revenge on him.

That was the official reason Edger used to have Adriana placed where she was. A second reason for that cell was that it lay near an escape tunnel that only a few knew existed within the dungeons. The emperor who commissioned this palace made, ordered several tunnels throughout the palace be secretly built. Then the construction crews were all executed to maintain the secret of them.

The only people within the walls of this palace now that they knew where all the tunnels were, himself and Edger.

“Is this really the only way to do this, Franco? You and I know Adriana didn’t have anything to do with what happened to you.” Eva lay beside him now, after eve