A single phone call from Cole was all it took to
summon Manley here.
In the phone call, Cole hadn't wasted time on
pleasantries. "Get to the Royal Club. Now.
Manley hadn't even get a chance to reply-the
line went dead. Assuming it was an emergency,
he had raced to the Royal Club. The moment he
arrived, Cole'd hit him with something
completely unexpected: he wanted a woman.
Wait-what? Cole asking for a woman? That
didn't line up at all. Cole was practically a monk
when it came to women-distant, cold, and
always above temptation. And wasn't he
married to Elliana anyway?
The whole thing threw Manley off. He couldn't
make sense of any of it.
Cole's eyes burned with urgency."She needs to
be clean. Legal age. Gorgeous, he said through
clenched teeth.
To Aron and Hugh, it made
