**Destiny—Derani**
"What if Nirvana has about five hundred million gold bars under its accounts?"
"What?!"
Just as the exclamation tore from Ember's throat, heads whipped to their direction, including Rowan and Lucien, both who exuded the kind of animosity that easily swallowed the room whole.
Ember was quicker. She hid her face by Aeron's side, eyes wide as she struggled to process that piece of information.
Being by the Queen's side meant she was no stranger when it came to hearing about big sums. But as far as big sums went, the figure that Aeron uttered was beyond imagination.
Especially as a person's private property.
And it begged the question how? How on earth did one family manage to acquire that kind of money. And why?
What was more worrying though was the fact that the Queen mentioned none of this to her. Because as far as troublesome political situations went, that was number one.
