Chapter 75

Atlas's POV...

“Within a week.”

Her words struck every nerve in my brain with a force that surpassed anything else in the universe. I was the most clueless one even though on my way here, I already reckoned that some strategies had been prepared to triumph over me in every possible way.

However, I didn't expect to face such a situation like this. Before me stood Caroline, the woman I had once loved and married. She posed a harrowing question, inquiring whether I was the culprit behind the heinous murder of her mother, the Queen. The absurdity of the situation was compounded by the fact that my own mother held the same belief. The plot in question had been meticulously crafted long before the incident came to pass, undoubtedly unfolding in a time and place far removed from the present. As a prominent adversary of Lola, it was unanimously concluded that I was the culprit.

However, buried within the recesses of my psyche, I harboured the belief that Caroline would remain unconvinced. Well