“Rania!” Alaric roared angrily. If they were not in the palace, and he was not in this situation, he would have slapped her.
The only reason why he didn’t do that, because he couldn’t afford the king’s wrath. From the look of it, the king was rather fond of her, or else, he wouldn’t go to extra length to accommodate this meeting.
“Caden is in the dungeon, we need him to exact the plan,” Alaric said in a lower voice, he reminded her that she had committed to help them to get rid of the king.
“I changed my mind,” Rania replied. She turned around to face her father. “I don’t want to do it,” she said in a matter of fact tone. “You want me to commit a horrendous crime against the king. I have never agreed to do that.”
“It’s too late, you are already in now.”
“I am not part of your charade,” Rania said sternly.
Before she was still undecided what she was going to do, but now she was certain that she didn’t want to be part of whatever plan Caden had.
After all he had done to her without even an ounce of remorse, she didn’t care if he died. Actually, it was a good thing. If Caden died, probably the Movement would stop, even though she was not sure if it was Caden, who had orchestrated everything.
Was he the leader? But, from the sound of it, he must be someone important for the Movement. It would be great. Caden could die for all Rania cared, and she would go through with her own plan to stop the war by convincing Maximus.
It might take years to accomplish that, but she was sure she could do it. He had started warm up to her.
However, Rania’s answer only enraged Alaric, he glared at his daughter, his grip on her arm tightened, as he spoke in a very low, and eerie voice.
“Yes, you are. You poisoned the king. If we are going down, you will go down with us too.”
Rania shook her arm, but she couldn’t free herself from his tight grip, which hurt her now. “I will tell the king everything, and ask for his forgiveness.”
“Do you think he will forgive you? How naïve you are.”
Rania couldn’t retort to that, because she was not sure whether Maximus could forgive her or not, but she was not going to give her father a satisfaction to confuse her.
“He will. He is my mate.”
Alaric let go of Rania’s arms, but he slightly pushed her away, anger was written all over his face. “Go, and see what he will do to you. Just remember this, Rania, you are not leaving this unscathed. You are going down with us, if you decided to betray us.”
“I don’t betray you. I have never agreed with anything that you planned.” Rania narrowed her eyes, and then she walked away.
She went out of the room, and then asked for the king.
“King Maximus is in a strategy room, my lady, he received an important news and he is with all the higher rank echelon.”
Rania didn’t expect this, and when she asked what happened, the warrior didn’t know, because they were not high rank enough to be informed about such information.
If there was something important came up, it was most likely something related to the Movement, thus she went to the omega’s quarters to look for Kean.
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