Chapter 123 – The Things in Motion
Things were in motion.
The sovereignty of the Human Domain would soon fall into the hands of a young boy—something even the current Emperor couldn't begin to imagine.
But how could he? The truth was simple: he was surrounded by people who did not want him to rule. People who hated him. People who deemed him unworthy.
Emily, the council, the entire royal palace—traitors, all of them. Either drawn in by Emily's growing faction, crafted in secret to make it easier to dethrone Rome, or ensnared by Solaris's web of spies, the result was the same.
Rome was encircled by vultures ready to tear him apart.
Did he deserve it?
Maybe. Maybe not.
After all, he had killed his own brother—for a woman.
Disgraceful. Had he never heard of the code: "Brothers before bitches"? Foolish, arrogant man.
But even that wasn't the real reason for his downfall.
No. Rome would fall because he had denied Sophie the throne.
