Mira's pov They brought Alina back to the estate just before dawn, her wrists zip tied loosely, her expression a strange mixture of defiance and exhaustion that didn't quite match the calculated woman who'd drugged Alder weeks earlier. "Start talking," I said, standing across from her in the small holding room Austin had prepared, arms crossed despite the exhaustion pulling at my own body. "There's an inheritance clause," Alina said quietly, her eyes flicking briefly to the guard stationed by the door before returning to me. "Buried in the original charter, written generations before any of us were born. If the current leader is found unfit through scandal, incapacity, or death, leadership defaults to the nearest blood relative." My stomach turned cold. "And Elara sent you to find it." "She's planning to use it," Alina admitted. "One way or another. She didn't specify exactly how far she intended to take it, but I think we both know what she's implying." "She wants me dead," I sa
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