66. Plan B

(Vera)

My fingers trembled as Mateo grabbed the note from my hands.

Blood. Lili's blood.

Every bone in my body burned in rage. If I saw Orna now, she would die a painful death. I wouldn't spare her, not at all. Mateo growled as he finished reading the note.

"Monster," he said with a dark rumbling growl. "How can she play with a little girl?"

Oh, yes, she would. She didn't have any qualms about using a little girl to succeed in her plans.

"Lili is another one of her pawns," I hissed. "Lili is the pawn she made to control me."

Amyra and Mateo nodded.

"She is undoubtedly smart," Amyra said with a frown.

"She is. She has always been."

Orna didn't decide to steal the crown out of nowhere. No, it wasn't random. Nothing she had done was random. Everything was moved in such a way that when we came to this place we were in right now, she would have the King, that she would be the one calling check mate.

She didn't decide to send Ezra and Lili to me, just for the heck of it. No.

"She knew Lili