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If she tried to fight for the control, I’d kill her It would shatterand everyone and she’d haunt rave, but at the end of the day I’d still kill her At the airport, just in case, I’d had sniper waiting… I had forced myself to prepare to for the slim chance she wasn’t rational any picture and that she would force me to kill her And had I done it, Wyatt…if he didn’t try to kill ht have lost his mind… The whole family would have fallen faster than a stack of cards built on strings

Growing up, I saw the family business like a chessschool, I knew right then… If she couldn’t play the gae

I ruled this faun to my head

She couldn’t shoot because ere faer for poouldn’t let her put down the gun either…I couldn’toff her damn hand

So she and I were at an impasse

“Why are you sether as she tried to read h I hadn’t even realized I was s until she pointed it out

“My greatest enereatest weapon”

“Huh?”

I shook ainst the bedpost… Donatella’s ambition, her desire to rule, forced her to protect the faun, I was e After all, I was only a hostage when no one else was around… When souard

And now she knew it, too…

If she took over the family, she’d destroy it, and if she destroyed it, how she could rule it?

It’s why she punched me Why she was so upset…she knew she couldn’t win

But it wasn’t a draasn’t satisfied with sharing victory

Wyatt and Dona had fallen perfectly into place That was

Checkmate