Chapter 71

“I thought you’d be relieved after Nuno was arrested,” Nathan muttered at last.

Elena didn’t answer immediately. She opened her contact list and selected a name labeled “Only If Desperate.”

“You know I’m never really relieved before the game is over,” she said quietly. “Nuno is just the surface. We haven’t touched the mastermind yet.”

She pressed the call button.

The connection was made.

A deep, heavy voice greeted her from the other side.

“Hello, Queen Elena.”

“I need your help,” she said quickly. “Starting tonight, I need you to monitor Isabella Lancaster. Discreetly, without making her suspicious. Where she goes, who she meets, even if she’s just shopping—report it to me.”

The detective paused for a moment before replying, “Does that mean I have to watch her 24 hours a day?”

“Yes, of course. But don’t let her get suspicious. I also want you to find out one more thing.”

“What’s that?”

“How the Lancaster Group can st