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Zora
Darius’s movements woke me up from sleep. I heard him talking to someone in the closet on the phone, and I wondered what the matter was.
I must have been asleep for hours.
After winning the votes to be king, all the tension that built up dissipated, leaving me tired and in need of rest.
I was feeling refreshed, but Monica could feel Cremin’s uneasiness which meant Darius had learned something disturbing or something had gone wrong. I braced myself for the worst and waited for him to come out.
He finally exited the closet and joined me in the bed. Though he seemed relaxed, he felt nervous. His gestures could not fool me. I felt Cremin’s turmoil, and I knew something was wrong. I wondered what he must have learned that would cause him to behave like this. I looked at his dark eves and smiled.
“Your majesty,” I teased, and he smiled at me.
“Oh, Zora,” he said, and I knew it was serious because he did not call me
green–eyes.
“Lori was our link to the king,” he said, and I sat up in shock.
“Elaborate,” I said, and he sighed.
“Ramsey told us everything. Casey was there. How she recruited him, how they used Casey, how they planned that you and Casey would die. It‘ s a mess, Zora, but she planned it all and those babies aren’t Casey’s. They belong to Jenny’s son because she claimed her lover, who is the king, is a
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Hand,” he said, and I gasped.
I felt terrible for Casey because he did not deserve that degree of deception.
“Yes, and that is why we would have the Brian arrest her,” he said, and I shook my head.
I knew everyone was angry, and emotions were running high. But we had to be smart about it.
I had someone watching her quite alright, and that meant our cause wasn’t hopeless, and she had not gotten away, but we had to be wise.
“I do not think that is wise. Let her believe she has fooled all of us and gotten away with it. Let us watch her so she can lead us to the king. She is still a pawn in this. Whether she is his bitch or not, it doesn’t matter. she is replaceable, but if we catch him, we will end the threat,” I told him, and he nodded, understanding my point of view.
“So you think we should just watch her?” he asked, and I nodded.
“Yes. She will not go to him immediately because we have her father in our custody. We have to make her believe that we have lost her and she is free. She is bound to visit the king, and then we will catch them. Meanwhile, pull all your resources together, let’s find that bastard,” I said.
“What if…” he began, and I interrupted him.
“If we had held her here, she wouldn’t give him up, and she won’t lead us to him. He won’t come for her either. The bastard seems selfish and wicked to allow his pregnant mate to play a dangerous game.
He left the woman he claimed to love with another man. Casey fucked her day and night, Darius. While I was there, they were like rabbits. No man that genuinely loves a woman would use her like that. To the so-called king, she is a tool and a means to an end,” I said, and he frowned.
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“He claimed her, Zora, and he got her pregnant,” he said, and I nodded.
“She wanted him to claim her, so he gave her what she wanted. He knew she would carry out the task diligently if he possessed her heart. If he treated her like shit, she would have betrayed him to Casey, but she didn’t because she had the illusion that he loved her and they would end up together. That is very dangerous thinking.
He doesn’t care about her or the babies in her womb. She is just another tool. If we held her, she won’t give him up because of love, and he won’t come for her, but allowing her to be free would make her unwillingly lead us to him.
Just wait and see. Let’s focus on your crowning and our wedding. Once Lori leads us to the bastard, we will catch him.
Let us maintain the status quo and continue to drill the prisoners. Let us keep Lori’s involvement out of it. We do not need to tell the prisoners what we know.
Tell all the people that know of Lori’s involvement to keep it quiet. Word must not get out that we know. I want her to be free. I want to fool her the way she fooled us.
She might even reach out to Casey to determine if he knows anything: he mustn’t let her know. He must maintain his behaviour. Pretend Ramsey did not give her up.
We need to treat her the way she treated all of us. Fool her. She is our only viable lead to the bastard king. We have to catch him through her. It would be sweet justice,” I said, beaming at him.
I needed him to relax. I was worried internally, but I needed my mate to be sharp. He sighed with relief and nodded.
“She gave Annika a silver dust capsule. The girl is in a comma,” he added, and I gasped.
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I remembered the hands Lori kept in her pocket and how she rushed to hold Annika’s hand through the bars. That was when she must have handed it to her.
I was angry at Lori that she would go as far as encouraging her cousin to kill herself for her selfish benefit.
Lori would suffer and die a slow and painful death. I know I will enjoy it because finding out she never cared for Casey broke my heart.
She ruined my marriage and my friendship for selfish reasons. I hated her. Poor Casey is alone now because of her. She would die a very painful death, and I would dish out the pain.
“They should feed her milk and tea tree oil. She would come through in a day or two. If the silver caused damage, it would take a few weeks for her
So repair fully, and she would be ready for questioning.
They should use a feeding tube.” I said, knowing the remedy of what she took.
Silver dust belonged to the east. The bitch knew the north did not understand how the poison worked.
“Once she is alright, I will drill her about her secret conversation with Lori. Lori must have wanted her dead for a reason. Annika knows something, and I want to find out what it is.” I said, and he nodded.
“Thank you for making sense of all this, Zora. I was confused and mad. I will reach out to everyone to act normal, but I won’t tell anyone we have eyes on the bitch.” He said, and I nodded.
He went to make some phone calls while I went to the bathroom to freshen up.
It wasn’t long before I stepped into the shower when Darius joined me. He held me under the water from behind, and I giggled.
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I wasn’t expecting he would be in the state of mind to make love to me, but his hardness said otherwise.
