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26. The ball
Adrean's p.o.v
A few days went by quickly and in those days I was very close to Paula, chatting and laughing, it was clear to me that she would never love me as much as she loved Henry.
I didn't want to but I was going through with my mother's plan, I didn't want her to hate me no matter what so I convinced my mother to drug her at the night of the ball.
One of the servants was going to put a drug powder in her wine that would really arouse and affect her to the point of her wanting to have a way with me.
Since she rarely drunk, I was sure that she was going to blame it on the wine. That way she would not have an idea that it was all my doing.
All I needed to do was to stay by her side and wait for the drug to take effect.
Henry wasn't invited and I made sure that Paula had no idea about it. I wasn't going to risk my chances of being with her or t
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