"What mistake?" Nikki gasped as she snatched her hand back from the spine of the book as if it had burned her. "I didn't even open the book! I just touched the cover!"
[MISSION COMPROMISE DETECTED.]
"How…?" her voice died down.
She remembered something. She saw herself lying on the white duvet, the midnight-blue gown discarded on the floor.
"Adonis... how do I save the world, when I am so weak and foolish?"
Adonis went still and he frowned in confusion. But he had heard her.
She had looked the supreme ruler of Earth directly in his eyes and practically confessed that her ultimate goal was to undo his empire. She had revealed her hand to the God of War.
She had just realized how foolish she was.
"Shit!" Nikki gasped, her hand coming to massage the crease between her brows. She had just laid her real purpose to the man in charge.
What would he think of her?
Just when she was thinking of what to do, the system spoke with another tone.
[INITIATING PUNISHMENT PROTOCOL.]
