CHAPTER 830: 830-PLAN B

Author’s POV:

Darcy was staring at her phone screen, her eyes wide.

"How the hell did that happen? I thought everything was sorted out." She turned to Larry, who shrugged.

"I told you, you’re going way too deep into this," he said, pacing from one corner of the room to the other.

"How did he end up killing Kesha?" She grimaced at the news again. She had left her spies around, but they couldn’t reach the well because Helanie and her friends had taken over the area. Still, the seer had managed to let her know that Kaye had freed himself from his curse.

But instead of killing Helanie, he had killed Kesha.

"And to think it was Kaye who first broke the curse. It should tell you something, you always discredited his abilities," Larry said to Darcy, who rolled her eyes at being scolded.

"Her father and uncle will kill us." Darcy waved the phone in her hand.

"Well, they’ll never find out who killed her. There was nobody there. We’re the only ones who know Kaye did it." Larry hissed, reminding her that even their spies couldn’t get close enough to the well to eavesdrop.

"Just tell me something," Darcy asked. "Where are the others? Where is my son Maximus? Where are Emmet and Norman?"

Larry shrugged again. "How am I supposed to know? Helanie’s friends are everywhere in the woods. They’re not letting anyone close, and there have been no sightings of Emmet."

Larry was frustrated with her. He had warned her not to make mistakes, not to go too deep into this. He already knew her actions had cursed her kids. What bothered him was that she kept intervening. He knew they would mess up somehow.

"It’s alright," Larry uttered later on. "I already got CCTV footage from some shops and the roads. I found Emmet and Maximus together in the car, but at some point Maximus was spotted in the woods in his lycan form. I’m already on it."

Larry suddenly tried to comfort her after realizing he had been giving her a hard time.

"Then find my son. It’s all getting messy. I didn’t know it would go downhill this badly. I had a meeting with Kesha. I taught her everything perfectly. How the heck did she screw up so badly?" Darcy was panicking, partly because her sons had cut ties with the mansion and even caught her spies, kicking them out.

Now she had to rely on Charlotte, and Azura for news. Jessica not so much, she had slipped out of her hands when Norman warned her not to stay in contact with his mother.

Suddenly, Larry’s phone started to beep. He checked it and took a deep breath.

"Okay, our warriors have spotted Maximus. They’re trying to lure him into a specific area rigged with laser beams. All we need to do is get Helanie to that place," Larry suggested.

Darcy took a deep breath, a hand on her chest, finally feeling like maybe Maximus could do the deed.

"Yeah, and then he will kill Helanie, of course, because he’s a lycan. Then we’ll drag him to the well and make him carry Helanie and toss her over. But how will we do that?" she asked Larry. She couldn’t even focus on her own plans anymore, everything seemed to be backfiring.

"Wouldn’t he wake up? Wouldn’t he transition back once he kills Helanie?" Larry asked.

Darcy shook her head. "No, they must throw her body in the well for it to happen, for the curses to break," she explained, groaning.

"Okay, then there’s no issue. We’ll sedate him. All we need are his arms. We can definitely manage that. Have you never seen a puppet show? We can make him do stuff. We just need him to kill Helanie," Larry said, already thinking a step ahead. He didn’t want to lose hope. The curses were rising, and all of Darcy’s sons were going to suffer.

"I’m so scared. I hope this happens," Darcy said, gripping Larry.

After some time, she got a call from her warriors. They had lured Maximus to the area they had prepared for a lycan, a large open ground on the mountains with laser beams, so once Maximus went inside, he couldn’t escape. Now they had to lure Helanie, but how were they going to do it?

Larry soon informed Darcy that Norman had cut the phone signals from all the rogue communities, so nobody could communicate outside them. He also updated them on what was happening in the mansion. That made her very curious.

"Mommy?"

She was in the middle of a conversation with Larry when her little baby arrived. She looked like she had been crying for a while.

"What is it?" Darcy hissed at Demi.

"Davon is in pain," she uttered, and Darcy’s eyes widened.

"What about you?" she asked Demi, who raised her elbow toward her mother. It was protruding, almost like it was broken.

"What is going on with us?" Demi sniffled, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"You will be fine. We’re taking care of it. Don’t worry," Darcy hissed. She gestured at Larry to take Demi inside the room and lock them in. Larry gave her a displeased look but gently held Demi’s hand, trying to comfort her as he led her back. He had to lock them in, even though he could tell Davon had been throwing up.

Darcy didn’t even want to clean up after that. She was just waiting for Helanie to die so all her children would be free from the curse.

The two pondered how to inform Helanie that Maximus was trapped on the mountaintop. They had no connection with anyone, but they desperately wanted to leave a tip so Helanie might foolishly try to save him.

In the end, they came up with only one plan, Darcy would go there herself. They would probably not let her enter the mansion, but at least she could scream at the top of her lungs that she had discovered Maximus was trapped on the mountain in his lycan form. That would be enough for the others to follow the breadcrumbs.