The plan was to use Lucain to gain information from his father, however he needed to bear that mark in order to keep that connection. He was our only outlet for that source of knowledge. I know he wants us to get rid of the mark, and I have a way that I can make him go undetected, a way his father will never know we are watching and listening.
I watch as Mary sets up the alter so we can cast the spell, how she can be calm know that she is a target for an execution to kickstart a war is beyond me. I would be killing the men that are causing this to happen. She mixed herbs into a broth in the cauldron. Lucian can smell it and his face twists in disgust.
“I have to drink that,” he gags, I giggle because he is supposed to be some renowned assassin and he can’t handle the smell of a simple
