Page 112 of Morally Corrupt

Well, if this isn't a spectacle.

They finally manage to get Allegra to drop the heart, and they quickly restrain her.

"Take her to her room and call for her maid," Enzo orders before turning to us.

"Sorry for that… she's probably just shocked," Enzo adds, a little embarrassed. I don't say anything in return, merely nodding. There was more than shock to that performance. Not my business, though, as long as she stays away from Adrian.

I look up and beckon him to go—too much excitement for one night.

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ADRIAN

Bianca parks the car in Vlad's driveway, and we both get out. She'd been adamant about driving since she'd smelled some alcohol on my breath. It's moments like these when I genuinely question her lack of empathy.

But I digress.

There are far more critical things to do now than for me to mentally debate how much of a sociopath my wife truly is. I shake myself from those thoughts as we meet up with Vlad in his office. Bianca has already called him to let him know we're coming.

"My condolences for your father, little goddess. I'm so sorry you didn't get to kill him yourself," Vlad taunts Bianca, and she only gives him a droll look.

"Yeah, well, there goes my lifelong goal of murdering my sire."

With these two, it's hard to tell when they're joking about murder or not, especially since most of the time, they arenot.

"What did Martin want when he took you aside?" I ask, as I remember.

"He wasn't making much sense, to be honest. You noticed how drunk he was. That was highly unusual for him. He started saying how he got lured by the money and that he shouldn't have done something… I have no idea what it was."

"Do you think he was afraid? Maybe he knew what was coming?"

"Maybe." She ponders this and turns to Vlad. "We need to hear the recordings. Whoever killed Martin was in there not long after we planted the bugs."

"I already prepared them." Vlad casually leans back in his seat and hits play on the computer.

There's a lot of static noise, followed by our voices as we leave the room, and then after some fast-forwarding, we hear Martin's voice.

"You came sooner than I expected," Martin slurred.

"I only do asmi señordemands," another male voice responds. The use of Spanish could be an indicator of who the other man is.

"He kept me around for so long as his circus animal… Always fearing when he was going to strike."

"You should have known it was going to come. Eventually. Especially after you refused to hand over your daughter."

"I didn't refuse it," Martin immediately counters. "Hedidn't want to meet my conditions. But then, I screwed him too, didn't I? When I gave her to Hastings? He's probably still bitter about that, isn't he?"

"You overestimate theimpact of your petty revenge. No, that's not why I'm here."

"Oh, I know why. It's because of Agosti, isn't it?" Martin gives a bitter laugh. "You don't like that I switched teams."

"Then, you know what to expect… how a traitor gets treated."

"You think I didn't know you were coming? I wanted to go out on my terms." Martin says before some movements indicate a struggle.

"Hijo de puta!"the other man exclaims.

After, the audio picks on some noises that are likely the man doing the physical damage to Martin's body. Vlad stops the recording then, and we're all perplexed.

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