Terrible plan

When Gideon just returned her stare at her with his own placid and perfectly blank face, Evie rose, never averting her firm gaze from him. She was resolute on wanting to wrestle whatever details she could get from this dearest brother-in-law of hers. 

"Tell me…" Evie hesitated for a moment but then she lifted her chin and held his gaze with an even firmer intensity. She was giving him the full force of the eyes of a queen who did not know how to give up. "Is the plan you are talking about the one where you were planning to force your brother to kill you?" she finally asked. She had her suspicions and threw them out at him, questioning his plans at point blank range in the hopes that he would be flustered enough to divulge more. However…

Another long moment of silence reigned between them. Only this time, the silence was definitely much heavier.