The Crown Princess's Gambit Chapter 2

Beatrix was sobbing hysterically, but with the knife in my hand, she didn’t dare attack me.

“Father… Father won’t let you get away with this! He’ll make you pay for my mother’s life!”

He won’t.

If word got out that I had murdered my own stepmother, his career would be over. For his own sake, he would find a way to clean up this mess.

Beatrix didn’t understand what a pragmatic, self-serving man her father was.

But I did.