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.”

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

how to take precautions. You can’t cover your tracks. You don’t know

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 took a heavy breath and

got wider and wider as she processed

No. No. No.”

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

family. They don’t know about this.

tightened his grip around her neck and said, “Shut up. Here’s what you’re going to do the moment I release you. Listen very carefully and do as I say this

Torture. Whipping. Bone-breaking. 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 you disobey me, your sons are at my

face was turning paler 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 and left with his men. When

“Yes, your Grace.”

part from

the copy from

night. I’ll get your boss to

we still have the

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

was expensive because it’s illegal and because of the tedious process to make it. So, a tip from the return of that poison was almost the amount the men were being paid for the job they

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 law. And

waiting for? Why 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 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

that they got. If they got the audits, they wouldn’t have

then pictured Lucianne, 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. What could she have said to get them to wait? What

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