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.”

“It was your instructions but it was

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

Oleander knife you ordered for the child. She saved the kid, and

wider and wider as she processed what Greg said. She then muttered

No. No. No.”

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, he sighed in frustration

Spare my family. They don’t know

you’re going to do the moment I release you. Listen very carefully and do as I

nodded without hesitation, and Greg continued, “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

thought about her family, she could only nod with tears streaming down her face. Greg threw her

“Yes, your Grace.”

missing part from

copy from the previous

done for the night. I’ll get your boss

one of them said, “Your Grace, we still have the Oleander dosage you

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

you, 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 was almost the amount the men were being paid for the job they were doing for Greg

him and the people he colluded with into a whole lot of trouble with

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

evidence that they got. If they got the

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

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