Chapter 46

• LUCIAN
• So many fools in this place, cheering and clapping. So many fools believed I was some paltry journalist from across the Atlantic. I raised my glass to the stage and took a pitiful little bow.
• Fuck knows how my insanity had sunk low enough that I’d paid fifty thousand dollars just to enjoy the look on that bitch’s face when she saw me stealing her applause. That’s what it was, of course. It was stealing her applause and seeing the shock and fear on her face when she realized it was me. It wasn’t me saving her from her goddamn craziness of bidding thousands for a penguin when she had the fucking Power brothers on her back for her debts.