Lyra's POV
What if I make a deal with him? Tell him I support the plan to kill Orion and also volunteer to help make it possible.
It still won't stop him from killing me, to honour Nikki's death.
"You know you don't have to kill me?" I pleaded as he brought out the dagger he had used to kill the other man. "If you kill me now, they would know something is wrong, Orion would know."
Part of me wanted him to see sense, I didn't want to die.
I'd wanted it in the stadium, but now, for some unknown reason, I wanted to live, even though I didn't like the kind of life I was living.
He smiled, "Don't misunderstand me, princess, the plan is to kill you while Orion watches, not behind him."
"He's going to watch you die at my hands just as you watched Nikki's death at his."
He gestured with t
