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apter 0023 “We’ll talk later. why don’t you pick up with what you were doing for now?” She nodded and hurried back toward her desk. Everyone but Dahlia looked at me with distaste, and I ignored them. “Since you’re stepping into the role so completely…” He grumbled and placed a folder in my hands. I glanced at it. “Shelter?” “I’ve been trying to get it approved for a while,” he explained, leading me into his office.” But my brother keeps rejecting it because I lacka luna. That’s why I need you. I opened the folder. “What could having a luna do for…” I set my jaw, having scanned the first few lines. I closed it and shut the door behind me. “You want to harbor rogues? Are you out of your mind? I’d heard that you were ambitious, but this is taking it too far.” “Why do you think that?” “Rogues are savages on the best of days. Dangerous, violent–they can’t even keep an oath if they tried. They’re menaces, and you want to invite them to live in Midnight?” He chuckled at that. “You feel strongly about this.” “Rogues killed my v mother.” His eyes widened. “What? Not in your notes on me?” His lips twitched. “No.” “If you think your brother would actually approve this, luna or not, you’re insane. You already have too much clout. Having a massive, untraceable militia force would be–” Theodore’s lips twitched upward. “Calm down, girl.” “Don’t call me ‘girl.‘ I’m two years older than you, boy.” He let out a laugh, not offended in the slightest. “Fair enough.” I narrowed my eyes at him. “You don’t want the throne, but you’re not making that clear to him. Are you going to tell me what’s really going on, or just let me assume that you’re either a liar or insane?” “I think you’d be better off seeing it first.” He smiled. “Take the file with you.” “Seeing what?” +25 BONUS Chapite naya “The rogue settlement at the edge of Midnight, I left less than half an hour later. I took a carriage out of the city toward the settlement, glaring down at the folder in my hands. Everyone knew the danger of rogues. There was no way he was sheltered or naive enough to not understand, so what was he playing at?…