Assassination of Imad?

"Alice, I don't know what you're up to, but it's not right for you to do this, Duke Biden would be devastated if he knew what you've done ..."

Alice's eyes welled up with confusion, while a hint of clarity and struggle flickered under her eyes, but unconscious and unable to control her body, she chirped, "Father won't be sad, he'll be happy to see it .... He'll be happy to have the support of another Duke ..."

Reason seemed to be subdued at the bottom of a calm, thick ocean, and it screamed to wake up, to get away from him, to push him away, to leave him, to even beat him down!

But the pressure of the whole ocean was so great, so great that she was incapable of fighting it, only tumbling and tearing in a cry of pain and sorrow.

Alice felt intensely suffocated! She needed air! Needed to breathe!

"Alisis!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice exploded above Alice's head like a loud thunderclap.