Chapter 99: Go To Hell!
I still couldn’t wrap my head about what Mint told me yesterday, Olivia was targeted and it could be because of me, but who? Who would have done something as cruel as that to her? And why? I knew I was targeted once by the Nightshades. Cedric said it would have been an official who gave an anonymous tip to those assassins, but then I was targeted because of Cedric being next in line to the throne, could it still be the same? But it couldn’t, I was no longer meant to be Empress, I wasn’t of that political importance, but why? Why go after someone I care about rather than come to me directly?
Olivia’s life wasn’t worth it at all, she didn’t deserve to die that way for something she didn’t understand, my grip subconsciously tightened against my gown.
"Lady Sylvia, are you alright?" Alice asked worried beside me, she must have noticed how tense I was.
"Nothing... I’m not just feeling well" I said in a whisper.
"Are you coming down with something?"
The horses next to us distracted our talk, good because I didn’t want to speak with her any further.
"It’s Lord Cedric," she said elatedly.
Hence the day of Cedric’s arrival came, and as ladies, we were meant to be at the entrance to welcome him.
I felt my heart quicken as the carriage came to a halt in front of us, my body stuttered, what wrong with me? Why were my nerves unsettled?