"That was why I said to use the aphrodisiacs and give her to me! You people are cowards!" her brother Owen said, cutting the steak with a harsh force.

"I'm not a coward, Owen! Queen Mother might be supporting me because of our maternal father's persisting pressure. However, you can't forget that she still thinks of me as an ideal Queen."

"If I show her my true colors of cruelty and recklessness, she might have second thoughts. Which, I obviously can't afford right now. Moreover, I'm not a fool to take such a risk right under the nose of Prince Edward. If not for the lack of time, I would have come up with a more flawless and less suspected method to take care of that commoner!" Olivia said, gritting her teeth.

"Sis, remember that I want her. She is too irresistible to let go." Owen said, licking his lips.

"Patience brother! You will have her by the end of these competitions." Olivia said, patting his shoulder. "For now, we have to think of some other plans to make Brina lose this competition." she pursed her lips.

"She just got lucky for now that she didn't go for a check-up. Otherwise, she would have directly got kicked out." Owen said. "If that would have happened, I would have had her tonight. I think she is still a virgin and virgin's are always delicious." he said, still in his la la land.

Olivia scoffed and suddenly yelled "Can't you think of anything else?! Today's competition will be starting in a few hours and we are yet to make a plan to pluck her out. Don't forget what grandfather would do if we can't show him how useful we can be."

Owen almost got startled. However, it worked that he sat stiffly and shook himself out of his lustful reveries.

"Olivia, who do you think will be your potential competitor in today's competition? Brina or Katherine?" He asked, all attentive as if he got flipped to a 'serious mode'.

"Katherine is not that bad at riding horses, so I thought she could be my competitor. However, after I witnessed how Brina stopped that Hungarian horse in the arena, I'm having suspicions that Brina is a forte in riding too. For now I will root for my gut feeling. Brina would be my potential competitor." she told her brother.

"So, ask Queen Mother's secretary to divert our plan on to Brina rather than Katherine. If Brina goes down the charts and Katherine reclaim her second rank, we can then cook another plan to suppress Katherine later." he told.

"But why am I feeling as if the flaws are glaringly open for others to notice?" Olivia asked.

"Silly, who will have audacity to go against you? Even if they notice, they can't come up with such evidence in a short time. And, by then, we can just divert the topic and suppress the suspicious." Owen simply said.

Holding both of Olivia's shoulders he looked into her eyes "We don't have other options, sister. If you fail to reclaim your first rank, grandfather will get furious. And, you know what will happen when our maternal grandfather gets angry. Right?" he whispered.

A chill ran down her spine and she shivered. Giving a slight nor she meekly said, for once, her vulnerability a pitiful plight to 'behold'.

"I will inform Queen Mother's secretary to make the immediate amendments." she said, before going inside and locking herself in her room.

Meanwhile, Olivia's younger sister, Olive witnessed everything from behind the pillar.

….

"Rhianna, I think I got drugged." Brina said.

She is now in the bathroom. However, she is yet to bath.

"What?! How are you feeling? Which drug could it be?" Rhianna asked, alarmed.

Rhianna was once a doctor but she is still a personal doctor to Brina, who barely trusts others.

"I'm good. My resistance seems still to be in healthy maintenance despite my negligence." Brina chuckled.

"Thanks to Remus and Seth for making you a tough girl. If it was Harry, I'm sure he would have made you as sensitive and delicate as Natalie." Rhianna said, taking a glance at Natalie who was unconscious on the bed.

"Is she fine now?" Brina asked.

"Yup. Better compared than to before. She is in the final length of completing her treatment."

"Leave her and tell me how you feel now?" Rhianna asked.

"It's not a dangerous drug. It might be making the human body weak and unstable for a while. I guess there was another ulterior motive behind this and that is why I decided to take your help personally." Brina told her.

She would have been fine with the doctor just like Charlotte suggested, but Brina knows very well how cunning the people here could be when it comes to prestige and power.

That is why she never trusts others, especially strangers, though they are legitimate and abided by law.

"Brina, keeping the worst case scenario in my mind, I did pack a mini blood tester in your bag. Can you prick your finger, test it and note down the values and send them to me. Or else, you can connect it through your satellite mobile and send the sample data to the S & S laboratory." Rhianna told Brina.

"Hmm.. let's not use the satellite mobile for now. I will just send you the values through mail." saying so, Brina ended the call and she immediately got busy with that work.

Right exactly after half an hour she got a reply, recommending some medicine for that.

Charlotte immediately asked her loyal bodyguard to bring it.

After all the hassle, Brina ate her breakfast and took the medicine.

"So, are we safe now? I mean, we just escaped from one of Olivia's despicable schemes." Charlotte said.

Brina lay down on the bed for a short nap and looked at Charlotte, "I started to feel as if something big is yet to strike us." she said.

She was having her own suspicions and Olivia just confirmed them.

"So..??" Charlotte asked, horror filling her eyes.

"So, what? We just have to face it!" Brina said.

"What if we can't break ourselves free from it?" Charlotte asked, biting her nails in nervousness.

"Everything has some flaws, Char. We will look for them and if we are not able to break free, we can go for a second plan." Brina answered.

"What's the second plan?" Charlotte curiously asked.

"It's a secret." Brina whispered teasingly before closing her eyes to take a nap.