Sheshakesher head, but a tiny smile gracesher lips.“So what’s your plan?”
Glancing around us, I lean in closer.Although I don’t have any more plans, I know she won’t drop it if she thinks I’m incapable of handling this myself.And at the very least, this will buy me some time to think of some other way to handle her.
“I’mgoing to poison him,”I say confidently.“It’s actually really clever.I baked him a regular cake and gave it to himthe other dayto get him to lower his guard.This way,by the time I give him the poisoned cake, hewill eat it without question.”
“You do know he has a taster, right?”
“Yes,” Isay,but I can’t tell her I had a new plan to poison my vagina.She will absolutely just think I’m using that as an excuse to sit on his face.“I’m not stupid.Ihave a plan for that.”I think as I talk, hoping whatever words I say next will make sense.“I’ll mix the poison on only one slice – the side facing me as Jace will most likely try from the side that’s facing him.This will also let me eat it with Richard, so he won’t suspect it’s poisoned.”
“And what poison are you using?Because it’ll need to be tasteless and odourless.”
“I know…”
“So what is it?”
I glanceaway.Bugger.Chillies are neither tasteless nor odourless.
“Arienna –”
“I don’t know yet.”
“Wait, you’re saying you don’t even have it yet?”
Exhaling in frustration, Isay, “Well, it’s not like I canjustwaltz into a shop and ask for poison.”I glance at her.“Right?”
Shegivesme a deadpanned stare.“So let me get this straight.Your whole plan to stop yourself from dying is to poison him with a poison you don’t even have nor have any idea of how to get?”
“You’re making it sound dumb,” I grumble.
Her eyesarefull of judgement.“Arienna, you are just feeding him cake with this plan.Regular-ass cake.How is that not dumb?”
“That’s not fair.You’re leaving out the poison.”
“No,you’releaving out the poison.”
Before Icancounter that, she adds, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“Because Idon’twant to ruin this for you.”Wrapping my arms around my waist, I hug myself.“You’re the happiest I’ve ever seen you, and I saw you the day you punched my sister in the face.”
“Your sister is a dick.”
“She’s…” Isay, trying to defend her but coming up empty.“Whatever, that doesn’t matter.You’re happy here.Idon’twantto ruin that.”
“Howdoyou think I’m going totake it afterI watchyouget publicly executed?”
I glance away, my face heating.This sounded so much better in my head.“I’mgoing to ask Richard to kill me in a way thatmakes it looklike an accident?”
She staresat me, gobsmacked.“An accident?”
“I figure that’s the least hecando…”
“Howishe going topass off pulling your intestines out of your ass as an accident?Oh, hey, Fabia, look at that, I forgot to use lube?”
Shaking her head, shetakesa step away from me and thencomesstorming back.“You are –You are – Ugh.”She clenchesher fists as she looksupat the ceiling, then back down at me.“I’ll get you the poison.”
“What?”No!“How?”I croak, hoping I can poke a hole in her plan.
She breathesout slowly, regaining control.“You knowthatchemistry set you got me?”
