Chapter 48

Winter’s POV

“I will deal with her myself, you just focus on winning this,” Lucas gave me his assurance after I had told him everything she had done.

Quite surprisingly, I could also say it was thanks to Lordan that I managed to remain in the competition. For the first time, we had something in common, which is that we both wanted me to be handed the role of head of the inner chambers.

Lucas kissed my lips, “I’m rooting for you.”

It was now the fifth day of the ritual, which was the moon night of tradition, and surprisingly, Dorea never showed up. Which was quite odd; she wouldn’t have missed it intentionally, except…

Lucas was dealing with her like he had promised.

I also went through the fifth and sixth days without any hassle, and despite Dorra missing the fifth day, she wasn’t disqualified because, clearly, the dowager was no longer interested in me. Maybe never was.

The theme of the grand finale was to respond to whatever stimula