Lorraine's lips curved into a knowing smirk. The mention of the ring was no coincidence. It was deliberate, a thread meant to entangle Leroy in a web of suspicion.
How subtly and cruelly the Queen had threatened him… She spoke of Gaston's ring as "lost," and hinted that Leroy must "verify the details," implying he was expected to conceal Gaston's involvement.
Heh! Leroy had to hide Gaston's role in the plot to kill him because his mother wanted to protect Gaston.
And if he refused, the Queen and her family would gleefully let the "found" ring, now almost certainly in the hands of someone connected to the scheme, be revealed as Leroy's, making him the scapegoat for everything.
What a woman. How could she call herself a mother? Or had she been forced, her pen trembling under the King's demands?
