I sat by my cousin’s side as healers circled around her, working to figure out what was wrong. Why was this happening?
I never thought that saving Jared would lead to Hestia coming after my cousin, my family….
I’d pushed her to this. It was all to save Jared, which was a good cause, but now Lena might die. She didn’t deserve this.
King Xander sat on her other side, holding her hand.
Neither of us was willing to leave her.
“What can you tell me?” Xander asked the healers after a few days of testing and analysis.
“We still don’t know what she was poisoned with, only that she was poisoned,” one healer said.
“That’s all you’ve learned, in the past four days!?” Xander snapped.
The healer cringed and bowed his head.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty, but this is a very complex poison. It isn’t like anything we’ve seen before. We can only guess as to what effects it is having.”
“And what are those effects?”