Anna chuckled. "Is that a dig!? Reilly is a Grand Slam Champion and one of the greatest to ever play the sport." she said. Layton smiled wide. "You know I hold him great esteem." Reilly smiled and pat him on the back. "Aww. I love you too, Layton." he said. "Well, that confirms my theory that there is secret knowledge held by the palace elite about becoming a sigma." she sighed. Reilly rolled his eyes. "Yep. He wouldn't be so angry if there wasn't." He then looked at Anna with a sad expression. "We told him that you told us about it." he said. Anna nodded. "That's okay. I told you to do that if you guys needed to." she responded. Their safety was way more important that her own. "What threw us for a loop was what he showed us after we told him that." Layton said with a sly grin. Reilly balled his fists in anger. Anna wanted to know what this was. Whatever it was, had to be wild. "He called you a damn serial killer, Anna! He showed us a binder full of fake evidence of dozens of murders." Reilly exploded in raw anger. Anna just shrugged. "I mean, I kind of am though?"
It was time to come clean. "It can't be that hard for you to imagine, Reilly. Remember at the border when they tried to rape Ronan? I killed 2 of those alpha soldiers with my bare hands." "What are you talking about!? Why would you do that!?" he shouted. Anna looked at him calmly. "I did it to get stronger. I had to be able to protect the members of my harem. Those assholes that harassed you and Rhys were just the start of things. Everyday, I had to fight off alphas and betas that wanted to beat you up or worse for daring to actually be good at sports. Those kinds of assholes can die and I killed them. I learned how to fight and protect people I care about. I stopped when all the others went off to college and got married. By then you boys were retiring, we had children to raise and we all were nobles. No one was going to attack us in the streets." she said. "My question is why haven't you been locked away." Layton said. "Either he's holding this as an ace in the hole to trap all of us if I attack, he'll use it as blackmail against our faction, or he doesn't care." she guessed.
Being that he was such a petty asshat, it could honestly be any reason. Layton frowned. "I'd bet more on the first 2. No one holds that much material, and in such detail to simply not care." he said. "Whatever the reason, it will make it impossible to take direct action against their faction. The moment something goes wrong, the whole Idut family will be charged with treason for associating with me for so long. I would not even be surprised if the queen pushes for our princes to be exiled or killed for me telling them about becoming sigmas." Anna sighed. "Don't sell yourself short. We can still use you." Layton said. Anna frowned. "It's a giant game of chicken. Provoking them is only going to cause mutual destruction, even if we have the lead here." "We have the lead?" Reilly asked. Anna nodded. "Now that my theory is confirmed, we must have the lead. Cassandra is a beta female in her late 30s. She doesn't know how to make sigmas. She is a killer, but she can't act until she does know or until Percival's health declines." Layton frowned. "You say that the queen is a killer?"
