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Chapter 250
Darius
After breakfast, we had to converge at the lounge to discuss matters. Zora went with Eloise and Kara while my mother left us to handle the issues concerning the upcoming ceremonies.
I have never been this mentally busy, but dealing with this king forced me to put my brain cells to work.
If it weren’t for the lives it threatened, I would have said I was enjoying the cat–and–mouse game the uprising was playing.
“Four days to go, and you will be the official king. How do you feel about it?” Abelardo asked me, and I looked at him, searching my mind for an
honest answer.
“Honestly, Abelardo. I feel nothing. I feel under pressure like I will be taking up more responsibilities,” I confessed, and he laughed.
“To think father fought tooth and nail for what was given to you on a platter,” he said in deep thought.
I knew Abelardo cared for our father a lot and wasn’t aware of what our father did to him. I hope the time won’t come when I must tell him the man he held on to in his happy fairytale memory never acknowledged his worth.
“I never agreed with your ideology, Darius, but I do now,” he said and sat beside me.
Marcel and Raphael were making themselves comfortable, while Casey and Hardy were yet to join us.
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“If you had attacked the south and destroyed the east as I advised, these people would have won. I am glad you know when to be merciful and when to be ruthless,” he confessed, and just then, Casey and Hardy joined
- us.
“Since you told me what Ramsey said, I took it upon myself to check the people on that list and the names checked out. The list she gave us was accurate. I returned to the prison to show Ramsey, and he agreed with the list. Those were names of their associates and members,” He said with
concern.
“So, what are you driving at?” Abelardo asked him.
“Lori and her lover planned on using these people, and if it goes wrong. dispose of them. See what she did to her cousin and father. They are trying to make us clean up their mess,” He said, and I knew where he was driving.
“The uprising group has ended, and the so–called king man would look for another means of getting what he wants. See these people and the uprising thing as a failed project.
These people on this list do not have any viable information about the king man and Lori.
They make her seem like a victim and keep saying he is an older man. That would force us to a point at Ramsey, but we know Ramsey doesn’t have the capacity and smarts for this.
They have stylishly disposed of their allies so they can go into hiding and start afresh later.” Marcel said, and Raphael cleared his throat.
“That is why it is paramount that Annika wakes up. She must have information that is not in circulation to make Lori go as far as slipping her poison. We might be wrong, but it’s worth the attempt,” he said, and I nodded. Just then, Zora linked me.
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“Lori is in Cains, and Jacob Mikhailov just visited her. They argued, and
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he left. I asked Hendrix to stay with her. Levi will be joining him in Cains,” She linked me.
“Let’s talk about it later,” I said, and she closed the connection.
“What is the matter?” Marcel said, he must have noticed my eyes glazed
over while Zora and I communicated. A not so nice giveaway that I always do my best to mask.
“Lori is in Cains,” I linked Marcel and Raphael, not wanting Hardy and Casey to know.
“Ramsey said we should check there,” Marcel linked back.
“She is in Cains, and Jacob Mikhailov visited her at her hotel to complain and argue,” I linked them, and Marcel gently nodded, not wanting us to discuss it further.
“So what are we going to do? You asked that we should not declare her wanted,” Hardy said, and I nodded.
“Yes, we want her to think she succeeded and is home free. She will contact Casey. He is now on the council and very powerful. She will contact him,” I said, and Casey frowned.
“I believe there will be trouble in paradise soon,” I said with a broad grin.
“What do you mean?” Marcel asked me, and I cleared my thought.
“Just as everyone on that list was a target for a specific reason and their emotions were worked on, I believe the king man targeted Lori,” I said, and they were confused.
“Her father was the only one that survived the uprising against Collier, my father. It had to count for something. This king man knew he needed a protective shield in case the operation blew up. So he recruited Lori,
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worked on her and made her fall in love so she would wholeheartedly do his bidding: to recruit her father and make him the face of the operation
On the surface, it would look like a continuation of what happened in my father’s era, but in actual sense, it is something new,” I said, and Casey shook his head.
“I think they fell in love,” he said, and I nodded.
“I thought as much until Zora broke it down for me,” I said and looked at Casey because what I was about to say would make both of us
uncomfortable.
“We fell in love with the same woman. I can never imagine sharing Zora with someone else so I can achieve my goal, I would find another way. Likewise you.
It took you a while to let go of her, and you are still battling yourself. Would you have sent Zora to Hardy, allowed him to sleep with her and claim her so you can have power over his region?” I asked him.
His eyes were misty, and he shook his head.
I knew he was fighting fresh tears, and I did not mean to be cruel. I just wanted them to see my point.
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