MAXS POV I d9nt know ow what I expected when Luca and I went to see James but I hadn’t expected iim to blatantlybtell me that he planned to go to war with me. I didn’t went him to tell me that he was planning to tear down everything I had worked hard for, Orr that he planned to take away my father’s lacy from me. I was caught off-guard and shocked by the audacity that he had. To come to my city and threaten me like that as if he had a foot to stand on, as if he had power. As if he knww something that I dit Kbow. But that wasn’t evehe worst of it, the worst of it qas that he blatantly told me that he was planning t do all tuis with Lilly hy his side and I woild have no choice but to watch him take over my empire with ky woman helping him. I told him that Lilly wasn’t jog tk bd of much hel

