128: Pseudo Queen

Hera’s POV

For days, I’d been observing everything in the palace with hawk eyes.

All the plans I’d made beforehand seemed to have fallen out of place for reasons that could ultimately be tied to the fact that Layla was a hypocritical whore that was jumping from one man in power to the other.

However, the moment I realized that she’d dragged both men by their balls out of the palace, I knew that it was time to strike and I wasted no time whipping up a new plan to take over as the Queen of Crescent Valley which had always been my rightful position.

The very evening that Ethan and the majority of his rogue army had been deployed to search for Layla, I found my way to the chambers of the head guard that handled the security operations while Arnold was still in power.

I was now standing at his door, dressed from head to toe in golden attire like a goddess as I knocked softly and waited for his response.

“Who’s there?” He called out in a deep, strong voice, one that made me confident in his