Chapter 9

Hayley

I was shaken the entire morning, nearly falling on my face when I heard the news. The news had come at the crack of dawn and it had been Candice who had come to me to deliver the horrifying happenings.

Maya, the maid that had come to give me food last night but I had been too upset to even muster an appetite had been found dead this morning and the cause of death had been determined to be poisoning.

The worst part of the news had not even been that she had been poisoned. It had been that the last thing she had eaten was the meal that I had told her to eat in my stead, which meant that the original victim of the food poisoning was supposed to be me and that sweet girl had just paid the price and been collateral damage in my stead.

Who could have done this? Why did they do this? And how did they even get close to being able to poison food that was intended for the Luna to eat?

“I need to see her body,” I told Candice, throwing a gown over my body and marching to the infirmary