Chapter 91

Helena finally understood why she was being tortured. It wasn’t because she went against the Duke’s orders and used poison. It was because the Duke, for some reason, thought that the poison she ordered got into a person he cared about. The Duke had feelings for the woman who was with the King!

Greg scoffed, which brought Tanner out of her thoughts. His eyes bore into hers as he said, “And you thought she was an accessory. Goddess, Tanner. You’re a bigger idiot than I thought you were.”

“I didn’t kill her. I didn’t. I never sent anyone after her.” She repeated in dismay.

“Who did you send Brown to kill? Be specific this time.”

“T-The instructions I gave w-was to g-get t-to one of th-their children. A toddler.”

Greg’s features hardened again. He would be the first to admit that he was a horrible person but he would never go after a minor. Tanner’s children were way past eighteen so they were technically within his reach. “You sent him after a child?” He asked in disbelief, and she nodded while averting her gaze from his.

He started thinking again, recalling the scene at the hospital. He did see a toddler next to that now -infertile Duchess. He thought that his distant cousin had adopted a son. But now that he thought about it, he wondered if that boy was the one Brown was after. He faced Tanner again and asked,” How was the child supposed to be eliminated?”

“O-Oleander.”

“How much?”

“I-I don’t know. B-But he said that it would be m-more than e-enough.”

Greg shook his head in disgust as he uttered demeaningly, “What a coward you are, Tanner. Lost the adults and now after their minor. An easier target, I suppose.”

She kept insisting, “I didn’t do that to the Queen. I didn’t. It wasn’t my contract. Brown was probably acting on another client’s instructions.”

wasn’t.” Greg said. “It was your instructions but it was a

scoffed darkly again as he spoke patronizingly, “You don’t really know anything, do you, Tanner? You don’t know how to take precautions. You can’t cover your tracks.

knife you ordered for the child. She saved

as she processed what Greg said. She

No. No. No.”

said, “Tell me you weren’t stupid enough to leave a cocky note for the intended victim.” When he saw her trying to avert her guilty-looking eyes even further than they already were,

don’t know

around her neck and said, “Shut up. Here’s what you’re going to do the moment I release you. Listen very

“You will go to the police and confess that you hired Brown. You will tell them that you ordered a child to be killed. And you WILL insist on the highest form of punishment from them. Not death. That’s not the highest. Torture. Whipping. Bone-breaking. Electrocution until you pass out. Those kinds of things. And no one can know that I was here.

wanted her to ask for. But when she thought about her family, she could only nod with tears streaming down her face. Greg threw her body on the ground one last time and left with his men.

“Yes, your Grace.”

part from when we

the copy from the previous

for the night. I’ll get your boss to disburse the

we still have the Oleander

department. If they offer a refund, you two split it. Treat it as

of the tedious process to make it.

the real audits. Maybe not all of it but even the most recent ones can get him and the people he colluded with into a whole lot of trouble with the law. And those two are real sticklers when it came to the law so much so that they were almost blind to all the pathetically-conspicuous

were his cronies still free and had no clue what was going on? Trying to see how his cousins would think got him nowhere. He

the first piece of evidence that they got. If they got the audits,

Even he listened to her. What could she have said to get them to wait? What was she waiting for? Out of nowhere, he muttered, “Lucianne, how are you

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