Axel said nothing, but the golden gleam that had appeared in his eyes and had frightened his men was gone.
And so Mathias continued his story, relieved to see that their boss' husband really cared about him and that their boss seemed to be able to calm him down easily which was rather a good thing : "For once they did a good job because we were totally powerless to stop them, and we really didn't see it coming.
They played the image of your dead body on all the news channels with the headline 'The King of Shadow is dead, and all his assassins will soon follow him, peace will finally be restored.'
When I think about it, what an asshole, I'm still shaking with rage."
After taking a long breath to calm himself, he continued : "Except for the shadows, nobody knew your real face so when I saw that it was really you and that they had tied you to the pillar of the central square of the Capital and that your corpse was being eaten by raptors, we decided to immediately counterattack."
