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.”

said. “It was your instructions but it was

do you, Tanner? You don’t know how to take precautions. You can’t cover your tracks. You don’t know how to avoid

pinned her neck to the wall and said menacingly, “The child you wanted to kill is alive. You know why? Because the Queen saved him. The Queen took that Oleander knife you ordered for the child. She saved the kid, and she was rendered…” Greg

processed

No. No. No.”

a cocky note for the intended victim.” When he saw her trying to avert her guilty-looking eyes even further than they already were, he

don’t

Here’s what you’re going to do the

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

by the second, especially when Greg listed the types of punishments that he 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

“Yes, your Grace.”

part from

with the copy from

We‘re done for the night. I’ll get your

two steps before one of them said, “Your Grace, we still have the Oleander dosage you asked for. Do

a refund, you two split it. Treat it as a tip for a job well

your Grace. That’s very generous of you. We’ll take our leave now.” Oleander was expensive because it’s illegal and because of the tedious process to make it. So, a tip from the return of that poison

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

his cronies still free and had no clue what was going on? Trying to see how his cousins would think got him nowhere. He knew them. They didn’t think very far. They could spell the word ‘strategy but they didn’t know what that word entailed. And his two

piece of evidence that they got. If they got the audits, they wouldn’t

and he sighed in bliss. How would she think? She was smart, and his two cousins listened to her. Hell! Even he listened to her.

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