Chapter 41: a means to an end

Alice left the Capital city for the Military base the following day, and everyone else returned to the order of their business as usual, in fact the following week went by uneventful.

Neither Eliza nor Stephanie felt the ease of life moving along but remained in their discomfort, they felt a sense of darkness lurking, but neither could anticipate when and how it would come. 

Since the day in court, Stephanie had been trying to locate James and Eloise in order to speak with them and beg them for mercy. Unfortunately, she no longer had access to the Jamieson clan or her mother's clan's resources; the search yielded no results. Stephanie remained unsettled, the look on both of their eyes that day haunts her to date. She hoped nothing would come of that meeting because she knew her grandparents would hold their word about disowning her, if only she knew that would be the least of her problems when her doomsday came; she would've spent more time looking for protection.