The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Helena finally understood why she was being tortured. It wasn’t because she went against the Duke’s orders and used poison. It was because the Duke, for some reason, thought that the poison she ordered got into a person he cared about. The Duke had feelings for the woman who was with the King!

Greg scoffed, which brought Tanner out of her thoughts. His eyes bore into hers as he said, “And you thought she was an accessory. Goddess, Tanner. You’re a bigger idiot than I thought you were.”

“I didn’t kill her. I didn’t. I never sent anyone after her.” She repeated in dismay.

“Who did you send Brown to kill? Be specific this time.”

“T-The instructions I gave w-was to g-get t-to one of th-their children. A toddler.”

Greg’s features hardened again. He would be the first to admit that he was a horrible person but he would never go after a minor. Tanner’s children were way past eighteen so they were technically within his reach. “You sent him after a child?” He asked in disbelief, and she nodded while averting her gaze from his.

He started thinking again, recalling the scene at the hospital. He did see a toddler next to that now -infertile Duchess. He thought that his distant cousin had adopted a son. But now that he thought about it, he wondered if that boy was the one Brown was after. He faced Tanner again and asked,” How was the child supposed to be eliminated?”

“O-Oleander.”

“How much?”

“I-I don’t know. B-But he said that it would be m-more than e-enough.”

Greg shook his head in disgust as he uttered demeaningly, “What a coward you are, Tanner. Lost the adults and now after their minor. An easier target, I suppose.”

She kept insisting, “I didn’t do that to the Queen. I didn’t. It wasn’t my contract. Brown was probably acting on another client’s instructions.”

“No, he wasn’t.” Greg said. “It was your instructions but it was a kill gone wrong.”.

Tanner’s red and teary eyes widened in surprise. Greg scoffed darkly again as he spoke patronizingly, “You don’t really know anything, do you, Tanner? You don’t know how to take precautions. You can’t cover your tracks. You don’t know how to avoid using poison. F*ck, you don’t even know who to hire as a proper assassin.”

He pinned her neck to the wall and said menacingly, “The child you wanted to kill is alive. You know why? Because the Queen saved him. The Queen took that Oleander knife you ordered for the child. She saved the kid, and she was rendered…” Greg took a heavy breath and his eyes glistened i nanger before he finished his sentence with the word, “…unconscious.”

Tanner’s eyes got wider and wider as she processed what Greg said. She then muttered to herself,”

No. No. No.”

Greg then said, “Tell me you weren’t stupid enough to leave a cocky note for the intended victim.” When he saw her trying to avert her guilty-looking eyes even further than they already were, he sighed in frustration as he remarked, “Hopeless.”

“Please. Spare my family. They don’t know about this. They’re innocent. Please.”

Greg tightened his grip around her neck and said, “Shut up. Here’s what you’re going to do the moment I release you. Listen very carefully and do as I say this time. Am I clear?”

She nodded without hesitation, and Greg continued, “You will go to the police and confess that you hired Brown. You will tell them that you ordered a child to be killed. And you WILL insist on the highest form of punishment from them. Not death. That’s not the highest. Torture. Whipping. Bone-breaking. Electrocution until you pass out. Those kinds of things. And no one can know that I was here. No one can know that I’m asking you to do what I’m sure you will do. If you disobey me, your sons are at my disposal, as is your mate. Do I make myself clear?”

Her face was turning paler by the second, especially when Greg listed the types of punishments that he wanted her to ask for. But when she thought about her family, she could only nod with tears streaming down her face. Greg threw her body on the ground one last time and left with his men. When they exited the compound, Greg asked his men, “Are the disabled CCTVs back on?”

“Yes, your Grace.”

“Good. We‘re done for the night. I’ll get your boss to disburse the funds.”

“Return it to your department. If they offer a refund, you two split it. Treat it as a tip for a job well done tonight.”

“T-Thank you, your Grace. That’s very generous of you. We’ll take our leave now.” Oleander was expensive because it’s illegal and because of the tedious process to make it. So, a tip from the return of that poison was almost the amount the men were being paid for the job they were doing for Greg that night.

n the first piece of evidence that they got. If they got the audits, they wouldn’t have waited.

Greg then pictured Lucianne, and he sighed in bliss. How would she think? She was smart, and his two cousins listened to her. Hell! Even he listened to her. What could she have said to get them to wait? What was she waiting for? Out of nowhere, he muttered, “Lucianne, how are you thinking

He knew that he had to leave soon. They were about to get caught, and he was not going to stick around to wait for that to happen. It wasn’t just the audits. The police will no doubt question Tanner’s willingness to confess. And if Lucianne got his cousin to use his King’s Authority now, his cousin would obey like a good little pup and use it. And whatever happened this whole night would be exposed.