Arranged To Him #Wattys2017

Twenty Three

this chapter and a couple of others got deleted so I had to re-write it, which means i lost all of your comments and such.. I'm not in the best mood with Wattpad rn lmao

Reynold's POV 

I chuckled to myself as I sat in my study, mindlessly twirling the poisonous plant around my fingers. I leaned back in my chair and smirked as I waited for my squire to bring me my brewed poison. 

I had a simple plan in mind, really. I knew that in order to run the kingdom efficiently, I needed to make sure that Harry wouldn't defer from the original plans I had set for this kingdom. 

Our populations were becoming too vast. Far too vast for me to control and I only had one idea that seemed to fix this problem.

The poison. 

It wasn't the most humane method, I can give you that. But I knew that it was what had to be done. I simply had no other option. Harry refused to go through with my plan of poisoning the kingdom and I knew it had to be because of that princess.

So I had to get rid of her. 

The doors to my study burst open and I smiled at the sight of my squire carrying in the tray with steaming hot tea. I stood up and walked over to him, smelling the scent of the poisonous brew before I clapped him on the back and took the tray from him.

"Should I tell the Princess of your arrival?" he suggested. I shook my head.

"No need," I said, "I shall go and surprise her. She'll be in for quite the treat."

I smirked and put the tray down, taking the plant in my hand and placing it down between two books. I crushed the plant and turned it into a small paste before I used a letter opener and scraped it into one of the small tea cups. I then poured in the tea from the pot into each cup, keeping a sharp eye for which one was Eliana's and put some sugar in both. Normally, you're meant to just crush the petals in the plant, as the poison in them is enough to kill a small group of people. But knowing that I put the entire plant in there made me chuckle.

There was no way she would survive that. 

I chuckled to myself as I made my way towards the exit of the study.

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Eliana's POV

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I sighed as I sat on my bed, waiting for Harry to come back. He said he had gone to make sure the horses were well settled into their stables for tonight but I knew he just wanted to see his favorite one with the spots. 

He had a weird obsession with that horse. 

I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling absentmindedly, thinking about the things I had discovered these past few days. 

There was a chance that King Reynolds was poisoning the kingdom. If that was the case, I wasn't sure if there was anything I could do. I mean, he is the king after all.

I'm just a princess. 

And better yet, even if Harry is his son, he is still only a prince. 

It made no sense to me. No matter which way I looked at this issue, there was no way for us to go about it.

Not to mention the fact that I had no idea how he was even poisoning the villagers. 

Was it through the air? No, couldn't be because that would mean that we had to be poisoned too. 

I bit my lip as I stared up at my ceiling. 

I couldn't find a possible explanation.

I was interrupted by knocks on the door. I furrowed my eyebrows as I sat up and looked at the door hesitantly. I knew it couldn't be Harry because he just left about five minutes ago. I stood up and walked towards it. My hands lingered over the door and I waited.