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- Author: Katee Robert
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ISABELLE
We have to do something.
It has to be you, Izzy.
For the good of the family.
My sisters’ voices ring in my ears, even hours after our conversation. I
stand on the curb and stare up at the building before me. It looks nearly
identical to those around it: a nondescript gray square reaching into the sky
as if it has every right to be there. It’s not remotely the same. No, this place
arguably holds the most power Carver City has to offer. Neutral space.
Every territory leader has an open invitation to come and go—for a price, of
course. My eldest sister has been here a few times, but I’m strictly
forbidden from attending.
Or I was before my father died.
It’s been months, and the grief still clings to me like a second skin.
During my darkest days, I wonder if it won’t cling forever. My father was
supposed to live for decades yet, to pass power to his daughters and retire to
do whatever powerful men do when they’re no longer running a territory.
He was fond of saying he’d like to spend his last days surrounded by dogs
and grandchildren.
It won’t happen now. Cancer took him and there’s no getting him back.
I have to close my eyes against the cascade of emotion. I don’t want to
be here, walking into the devil’s den. I’m not the leader like Cordelia. I’m
not the genius like Sienna. I am simply the youngest. The woman who
never quite grew up, the one who values her personal freedom above all
else. My sisters were always destined to hold positions within our father’s
organization. I was allowed to find my own way. Up until my father’s
death, I believed that way would lead me on countless adventures and travel
across the world. To freedom.
That’s no longer an option.
The first step is the hardest: to keep moving toward the fate I want
nothing to do with, to not turn and run until I’m somewhere far from Carver
City and the chains my sisters are asking me to encase myself in.
Inside, the facade of normality continues. I step into the elevator and
take slow breaths that do nothing to calm my racing heart. I don’t know if I
can do this. It seems simple enough from where my sisters sit. Our two
most formidable generals have left us and are making no plans to return. It’s
imperative that they stay, so we will do anything to ensure it happens.
Simple.
Except it’s not simple at all. Not for me.
The elevator doors open and I step into a room that’s my first indication
I’ve left the real world, such as it is, behind. The room is uniform marble,
giving the impression of being unmoored. The only furniture is a single
desk, and a beautiful Black man sits behind it. He looks up as I approach
and gifts me with a smile that seems to brighten the room. “Welcome back
to the Underworld, Isabelle Belmonte.”
Of course he knows who I am, even though this desk sat unmanned the
only other time I came to the Underworld. Being the daughter of the socalled Man in Black is enough to make me a strange kind of famous. I give
him a practiced smile even though all I want to do is turn around and leave.
“Thank you.”
He rises gracefully and motions to the large black door dominating the
wall behind him. “Since it’s officially your first time, Megaera will need to
speak with you before you engage in any activities.”
Activities. Such a mundane word to encompass a very un-mundane
topic. I know what goes on here, of course. Everyone in Carver City does.
Power and kink and sex. The thought thrills me even as my palms go
clammy.
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