No one was sure what she was doing. And Valentina didn't care. As far as she was concerned, she had won the wager, and that was all there was to it. What Valentina didn't know was that they expected this.
The very day Valentina talked with Aiden, he told them. Of course, he didn't say it out loud; they had their own way of communicating. They were unaware of whether Valentina could hear them.
As a precaution, Ember temporarily opened a way for the four of them to communicate through the contract. This cost a lot of CL, but was a good thing for them. They would be able to get the CL back.
Ember had been collecting CL from the people around them as well as themselves.
With that, they were able to have a conversation. Since Valentina was so confident in her ability to control them, she would allow it to happen. The problem of who to control came down to Luka and Cassandra.
