Lillian’s POVThe pages were not long but every word on them hit me like cold water thrown directly into my face.Elder Carter’s handwriting was neat and deliberate across the top of the first page, the instructions were written without a name anywhere on them, just references to her, take her down, remove her, take her place. No specifics about who she was, as if Carter had been careful enough not to commit that detail to paper, but I knew. There was only one her that any of this could be referring to. The letter laid out the broad shape of the plan, the positioning, the timing, the expected outcome, all of it written with the calm confidence of someone who had done this kind of thing before and expected it to work.But it was the second page that made my hands go completely still.It was shorter than the first, written in a different hand, less careful and more urgent. And what it said was plain enough that there was no reading it any other way. If Miranda failed to seduce Alpha Do
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