Chapter 94: Blown Cover
Elias did not underestimate Victoria Frost for a second.
A woman could be beautiful, polished, and young-looking without being remotely easy to handle, and Victoria was all three in a way that should have made anyone with sense more careful, not less. Nor did he do what Liora might have assumed he would, which was let his thoughts drift toward seduction the moment he saw a powerful woman with a face like that.
Based on Giselle's age alone, even if Victoria had become a mother unusually early, she still had to be nearing forty. That put her at least a decade ahead of Serena Blackwood, and ten years did not mean age alone. It meant judgment. It meant experience. It meant ten more years spent learning how to read people, use silence, and make others move first.
Serena was already difficult enough.
