I stared at Hadrian, my mind reeling from his words, my eyes locked onto the burning intensity in his gaze—a clear sign he meant every syllable.
"You can't just kill her..." I muttered, my voice laced with unease.
A slow, almost indifferent shrug lifted his shoulders. "Selene has more skeletons in her closet than you'd think. I just need to find them and accuse her of something worthy of execution."
He spoke as if it were inevitable, a mere matter of time.
I forced a wry smile. "You really think she'd let anything slip after working so hard to become queen?"
Hadrian's lips curled into a dangerous smirk. "That’s why I'll have to make her reveal all her secrets."
The weight of his words settled heavily in my chest, but curiosity won out. "And how do you plan to do that?"
"I'll have to
