We spoke some more, and I left William's cabin with a plan. I told him I would walk home, needing to get some fresh air and missing my runs. I knew that William had his own plan, that he was trying to get me to pass of as my own. He had given up the information far too easily, and that had initially raised my suspicions. The more we spoke, I knew what he wanted. He wanted me to have s*x with Conall, become an Alpha female, and while Barbara was caught off guard, her power stripped, he would go after her. The hole in this plan, however, was that Conall remained much stronger than William, and would find the murder of his mother unforgivable. William had planted the seed, hoping that I would come to this conclusion alone and fill in the gaps in the plan. Violet had always been the one comin

