Ve answers the question as Lucas shifts, knowing that he won’t even hear the words during the shift, but saying it anyway, much more for her than it is for him. Lucas seems to think that the protection extends to only a single exact moment. If she is to leave this place, she wants to leave her protection as a long-lasting blanket and that means eliminating threats.
Lucas is a threat, Cody is the biggest threat. Eliminating Lucas takes him out of the equation, and it also has the added bonus of stripping half of Cody’s confidence. She went into the fight today with every intention of killing Lucas. What is another life in the service of Rhys? This will help her sleep at night. This is what will make her be able to leave this place, because it is not something she can just turn off and forg
