Chapter 89

• He closed his eyes. When he’d first seen Illyra in Hawaii, he’d assumed she was there to con someone. Later he’d convinced himself that meeting her at that poker game had been wild, pure coincidence.
• Even when he’d discovered from Aldric that Viktor had deliberately tried to plot that meeting, he’d convinced himself that Illyra, at least, was innocent. Exhaling, he crushed the paper against his chest. But his first instincts had been right all along. She’d been in Honolulu for a con. And just like ten years ago, Andrei had been her mark. As he opened his eyes, the dark shadows of his study were bleak.
• All color had been drained from the world, leaving only gray. Illyra and his brother had to be working together. After Andrei had started attending private poker games in Honolulu, while recuperating from his racing accident,