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

and teary eyes widened in surprise. Greg 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. You don’t know how to avoid using poison. F*ck, you don’t even

know why? Because the Queen saved him. The Queen took that Oleander knife you ordered for the

and wider as she processed what Greg said. She

No. No. No.”

he saw her trying to avert her guilty-looking eyes even further

family. They don’t know about this.

“Shut up. Here’s what you’re going to do the moment I release you. Listen very carefully and do as I

Electrocution until you pass out. Those kinds of things. And no one can know that I was here. No one can know that I’m asking you to do what I’m sure you will do. If

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

“Yes, your Grace.”

from when we were

the copy from the previous

for the night. I’ll get

Grace, we still have the Oleander dosage you asked for. Do you want

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

because of the tedious process to make it. So, a tip from the return of that poison was almost the amount the men

what he wanted to do next. His cousins had 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

going on? Trying to see how his cousins would think got him nowhere. He knew

piece of evidence that they got. If

he sighed in bliss. How would she think? She was smart, and his two cousins listened to her. Hell! Even he listened to her. What could she have said to get them to wait? What was she waiting for? Out of nowhere, he

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