Zane raised an eyebrow, Cheating. How Sinister. This Lucas Rivers was laying a trap for him.
"He said that you are the only one of the list that has never gone to the Battle Area. That it is odd that your name showed up and that everyone knows..you know your situation."
"An illegitimate child of an elite family with the funds and desperate to make his name in Amherst College." Zane completed it for her.
He was dragging the Valois family into the challenge, talking about his credentials, forcing his hand and magnifying the suspicion on him. The thing about a challenge is that it was not compulsory but with all these tactics, if Zane refused to show up, it would rather lend a truth to his words.
"You do not have to listen to him. But you should see this." She touched her earring and the projection of a video appeared in front of him.
