Eleanor's Victory Volume 3 Chapter 15 - Very Lonely

In which Eleanor Monckton, dining with new acquaintances in Paris, encounters the disreputable yet knowledgeable Victor Bourdon, who reveals he possesses the lost will vital to her cause and proposes a dangerous alliance. Their tense conversation at the Palais Royal gardens unveils whispered secrets and the sting of betrayal, setting the stage for a negotiation fraught with risk and reprisal.