Page 46 of Take My Throne

“Your phone is definitely bugged and my guys found another one tucked inside the heel of your shoe.”

“Great.” I slump back. It isn’t that I am particularly surprised, but it is still disappointing to discover that my father is as much of an arsehole as I suspected.

“At the moment, my guys have your things in a sealed box so no signal can get out,” Archer tells me. “It’s up to you what you want to do next. We can disable the bugs if you want your privacy back.”

“Let’s do that,” I say, without even thinking about it.

“Wait a moment before you make the decision,” Archer says. “Otherwise, you’ll miss out on the good news.”

“Which is?”

“Right now, your father won’t suspect anything,” Archer tells me. “It’s pretty standard practise for the Houses to have equipment which can cancel out bugs, so the fact that the signal will have died won’t raise any alarms. If your father doesn’t know we’ve found the bugs, we can use that against him. We can feed him false information.”

“We can lure him somewhere to assassinate him.” I nod slowly. “You’re right. That is good news.”

“Exactly,” Romy says. “Now we don’t have to worry about tiptoeing around trying to figure out his schedule. We’re in charge now and we get to decide what happens and when.”

“Just as long as I get to be the one to deliver the killing blow,” I say. “There’s no way I can let him get away with murdering Dave. I want him to look me in the eye and know that I’m the reason he’s dead. This will be my revenge for all the people he’s hurt over the years-–including my mother.”

“So, all we need to do is come up with a plausible story to get Solomon right where we want him,” Declan says. “And I think I have the perfect cover.”