*Vanessa’s POV*
After handing me the powdery substance, Falcon left and returned to the party. For a while, I couldn’t move. I remained standing in the middle of the garden in front of the fountain with instructions to, I presumed, poison his brother.
There was nothing else I could think of. It wasn’t like the first prince had suddenly grown a heart and was now instructing me to secretly administer medicine to help his brother.
I shook my head of the thoughts, scandalized that Falcon would even ask me to do something like that. I then put the packet he gave me in the bust of my dress before moving on. There was no way I was going to poison Erik. There was no way he could get me to do something like that.
If he asked me about it later, I would just… lie. I’d tell him I lost it, or tell him I got curious about what it was and it fell into the fountain. Or… come up with something else. Something that didn’t end up with the blood of the last prince on my hands.
Erik’s blood.
