Chapter 36 : 101 Ways to Fake Your Death
An hour later, over coffee, Kent is looking over a fairly grim to-do list.
“Hanging wouldn’t work,” he says.
I shake my head. “Impossible to control. What if it went wrong? How about pretending to feed you wolfsbane?”
“We could accidentally swallow it. If I get nervous enough, I might.”
I scoff. “You? Nervous?”
“Our kingdom and my brothers’ lives are at stake, so yes,” he admits.
Like the Alpha my father killed because of me? What did that Alpha have to do with my father?
My past, at least before my earliest memories, is a mystery. A big blank canvas. I have no answers to the questions that plague me. And what does any of this have to do with my father becoming power-hungry and wanting to take over the Ruby Nightclaws? Does my mother know any of this? I can no more picture kind, loving Sally Blessing keeping all of this a secret and approving of it than I can fly to the moon.
“Okay, so that’s out. Pretending to drown you?”