Nadia's POV

Meeting with Landon now was really all just sex. At first I used to bother about what to tell Vance. Moments where I'll stay out a while trying to remember what I told him last and how best to continue, something that won't anger him or get Landon in trouble.


Maybe he's gotten tired and moved on from wanting to frame Landon, or maybe he's going about it some other way, either ways, I don't care. He knows what is really going on, and so far he's fine with it, I am too.

These days, it's almost like business. We just fuck, and talk, and fuck and talk, an old freaking cycle, but we are both used to it, and strangely, it works.

'You're leaving so soon?" Vance asked me one morning after we just spent the whole night having mad sex.


'Yeah." I replied to him. 'Better to meet him in the morning when he's not high on stuff." I replied to him. He wasn't convinced in the least and we both knew it.

'Do you really think you're heading somewhere with all these?" He asked me. I didn't know what to reply to him. I'm still not sure whether he's interested or not in the whole thing, but I knew I had to be careful with him, ‘cause the Vance I know could be a little explosive at times.


'I think I'm heading somewhere." I replied succinctly. It did sound rude when I replayed it in my head. But I had to be straight and firm with Vance, else he'll pull the rug from below my feet.

He took a moment first, classic Vance. I wasn't even expecting him to reply at all.

'I think it's high time I gave you a deadline you worked with. You both are taking too long, the matter is barely showing from under the carpet." He said. My heart started to thud and not beat. The more painful thing was that he was so calm and collected about it.

'Whatever you say, Vance." I replied to him flippantly. There was no point debating anything with him.

'So how long do you suggest?" Vance asked, coming closer to me. I was so freaking uncomfortable, feeling like he could sniff and hear, and see all the discomfort in my body.

'I'll work with whatever time frame you have left." The replies seemed to be coming easy, but the confidence to say it was the issue.

'I'll give you three days to come up with something tangible." The ease with which he said it, I suspected this all was premeditated. If there's one thing I've learned with Vance, it's that nothing was ever my fault. All he did, he thought of before hand. 'And I don't want to hear how things go from now on. Just compile it all. I want a detailed report in three days. That can work, right?" He was at my back and literally breathing heavy down my neck, the hair's on my body were fully stood, I was scared in and out and it's going to be seconds with this close proximity before I start freaking out.

'That can work." I said. 'If have appreciated if you did not involve me from the start though. We both know I didn't beg to do this." I wish I held my tongue at that moment. I really wish I did. But I was getting pissed with how he kept pushing me back and forth because of something I did not beg to do. Fine, I got to see Landon legitimately through it, but it's still not by my request. And I seriously feel that there's a trap on it somewhere for me

Maybe I'll just let Landon know why I've been paying all these regular visits to him and let us both think up something that would blow Vance's head and also maybe divert his attention from Landon till we think of a better way to make him face someone else and not make a victim of Landon.

I rushed out immediately like a servant to their duty post right after he left me. On the road to Landons, my head was filled with a million things. Vance was acting off, maybe he knew I have having sex with Landon, maybe he did not. But his sudden and total disinterest in what I do could only mean that he had taken the interest in someone else. And if that was happening, I definitely would have known. Something that makes Vance more annoying is the fact that he's more creepy.

'Hey." Landon said as I let myself in. He had gotten so used to my visits and their patterns that all he did was leave his door unlocked, even if he was sleeping.

'Vance says I have three days left." I said to him immediately I plopped down on the chair.

'What the fuck do you mean?" Landons rage went from nothing to hundred at once.

'I'm saying Vance gave me just three days to give back a comprehensive report stating whether or not you were responsible for the attack on Moonstone. Just your house wasn't affected, he found that weird, and it still bugs him." I started explaining like I was under a spell. Landons face dropped like he couldn't believe his ears.

'You mean you and Vance planned this on me?" I get if he couldn't believe what he was hearing, and that's fine but it's high time I topped playing this stupid game.

'Really?" He barked. 'Is that why I've seen him drive past here a lot lately? Is that bastard stalking me or something?" This is the exact reaction I didn't want from him which is why I've held back since forever.

'I doubt. He's ill at ease when he's at the palace so most times he drives off to a destination I know nothing about." I replied him.

He seemed to calm down a little and actually process what I had said.

'So what have you been telling him since all you come here for is sex?" I hated the way he asked that question.

'I hate you sometimes, Landon. You could be a really big dick." I was so pissed and irritated.

'I'm sorry." He apologized. Landon could be very irrational at times, but he was also really nice.

'What do you think we should do?" I asked him again.

'I'll think about it." Landon replied. '