Chapter 30: Failed Plot

Unknown POV;

Lilith was either too strong a woman or Sheila hadn't done a proper job. That poison was one that could take out ten strong men and the best part of it, was it had no cure, yet for some reason, she was still alive, although unconscious.

In my short time alive, I knew never to think that something was impossible. After all, who would've thought that my brother would end up as the king when he was the youngest of us, or that my father would die just as he had? So when I heard that the doctor had said that she wasn't going to live, I decided that it wasn't enough. She had to be completely finished.

When Sheila told me that she had done the job, I told her to leave. It was better that way. After all, she was the only one who knew that I was responsible for it.

She didn't want to leave, but I promised her that I was going to bring her back when I became the king, something I had no intention