Cassius smirked at Julie's reaction. "Uncomfortable, Captain?"
Julie's jaw tightened, but she said nothing.
He turned back to Lucious, who was still struggling to process everything. "The truth is, my father has been waiting for years for me to slip up. To give him an excuse—a justifiable reason—to eliminate me without consequence." He exhaled, a humorless chuckle escaping him. "And to think, I only found out about this because a few of my maids used to report everything I did back to the main household."
That caught Aisha's attention. Her sharp amber eyes narrowed. "You had spies among your staff?"
