She turned to Lucian, her voice trembling with emotion. "Lucian, I don't blame Nora for faking her death and fleeing the wedding, and I don't blame her for marrying someone else. But why did she have to lie to you like this?"
Lucian frowned, but he did not leap to her defense as he always had. A flash of panic flickered in Victoria's eyes.
She suddenly rushed over and grabbed my hand. "Nora, go back with Lucian. I will step aside. I only ask that you stop hating me."
Before she could finish, a glint of steel flashed from her sleeve. A small knife suddenly drove toward her own shoulder.
She crumpled to the ground, screaming at the top of her lungs. "Nora, why are you trying to kill me?"
Once upon a time, Lucian would have charged over and wrapped his hand around my throat. But this tim
