Lucian's POV
“I am here to express our condolences to Your Highness on His Majesty’s passing…"
“We are deeply sorry…"
Their voices blurred and faded to a distant echo in my mind. I couldn’t focus on anything. The only thing consuming my thoughts was Leah.
Where is she now? If Lucas’s plan had succeeded, she would be with Darren, fleeing to the north.
The plan involved enhanced Darren killing Mick and secretly sending Leah to the north. Publicly, we’d claim that Leah, grief-stricken by my father’s death, had taken her own life. In this way, I’d eliminate Mick and seize the throne simultaneously.
When Lucas first proposed the plan, I thought he was mad. No one had ever schemed like this before. No one had ever dared to deceive the Moon Goddess. Since yesterday, a troubling unease h
