Chapter 234: Nonsense idea
"This isn’t good!" Aspen burst out as soon as Marcus ended the video call. He was in the same room with Boris and Decan while the latter was having that fateful conversation with Marcus. As such, they managed to hear everything that was said. And unfortunately, what they heard was far from ideal. "Things just got complicated. We have to tell the Princess how evil his father was with him changing the negotiating terms like this!"
Meanwhile, Boris remained silent as he observed from the sidelines. He was torn on how to feel towards the situation. There was a part of him that was rejoicing at the fact that Lyne would be left behind. On the other hand, he still pitied Lucio if his son Cole would be left behind under Marcus’s jurisdiction. Obviously, Marcus only cared for his daughter and no one else.
Having had enough, Aspen moved to pick Raine up for them to talk about the current situation. As soon as she arrived, Decan then immediately updated her on the current state of affairs.
After hearing of the more recent developments, there was a terse silence before Raine let out a long sigh. With a hum, she said, "We can’t involve Lucio in this. You all said that he was neutral on Nathan’s ruling. That only means that there’s a possibility that he can turn against Nathan and use this situation against him in the future."
Raine shook her head in disbelief. She never thought that her father would even bother to see her current predicament as an opportunity, but then again, a part of her expected this to happen knowing how sharp and cunning her father was. Truth to be told, she was honestly hoping for some sort of miracle to happen. As if in some twist of fate, her father would somehow soften up or that he wouldn’t be able to get his cunning thinking back up to speed since he just woke up from a long coma.
’I guess he’s really back in peak condition now,’ Raine regretfully mused.
After careful deliberation, Raine clicked her tongue as she instructed, "Give me the pill. I guess there’s no other way but for me to personally take the poison in front of my father." She then turned to the others, "You can just pretend that you’ll take Lyne’s life if I won’t take the poison in front of my father. That way, there will be a valid reason for me to swallow the pill. At this point, I can’t afford for my father to be suspicious of me." She continued, "Also, we can’t involve Lucio in this. We have to make sure that everyone in the Convel Society believes that it was Nathan who did the trade for his people."
In truth, that last part was mostly for her own conscience. She didn’t want Nathan to lose the trust of his people just because of his deep love for her. He still needed the Convel Society to protect himself from her father’s wrath, who she just knew would do everything in his power just to kill him.
"How about we let just Marcus think that it’s King Nathan that’s directly negotiating with him?" Boris suggested, making all eyes present in the room fall on him. "I mean, Davin and Nathan almost look the same at first glance. Marcus isn’t aware of Davin’s existence, so... Why not try asking him to pretend to be King Nathan in this exchange? I’m sure he’d be glad to do it since he’s already raring to see the man anyway."