Chapter 47

My aunt left the day after she gave me the poison. For the next few nights, it was impossible for me to sleep, I hid the bottle under my mattress, convinced that I would never use it against Gregory or anyone else. But at the same time, I could not let anything bad happen to my brothers. I thought about telling Gregory about what my aunt had ordered me to do, but I feared that he would declare war against Lerene and, as much as I despised my uncle, I still loved that kingdom dearly and I did not want to see it suffer, besides I knew that the second Gregory attacked Lerene, my uncle would not hesitate to kill my brothers in retaliation. Also, part of me feared that everything was a trap, prince Dominic had told us that Sable Morgan was planning something to force Gregory’s army out of Dranda, what if this was it? What if my aunt had just given me the poison to anger Gregory so that he would march against Lerene so that Sable Morgan could use the opportunity to defeat