Veronica’s attempted assassination of Matheus and Alice is a failed murder plot that transforms a moment of domestic vulnerability into evidence of a coordinated supernatural threat. Veronica is caught with a magically bound body and a powerful silver blade, but the immediate arrest does not resolve the danger: Alice and Matheus recognize that the weapon’s construction and enchantment exceed Veronica’s status and abilities, pointing toward an undisclosed accomplice.

Causes and Hidden Agency

The confrontation begins with Alice demanding to know who told Veronica to carry out the attack. Veronica insists that no one directed her and claims that the plan was entirely her own. Her panic, however, undermines the confession. Alice knows Veronica as manipulative and controlling, yet not malicious enough to have devised an attack of this scale by herself. The gap between Veronica’s assertion and Alice’s judgment creates the event’s central mystery: the visible assailant is probably not the true architect.

The weapon provides the strongest evidence against Veronica’s story. Alice identifies the blade as a silver weapon carrying an unusually powerful enchantment and argues that a servant of Veronica’s standing could not have acquired it independently. Very few people can create such a blade; those capable of doing so are powerful magicians or witches, and they would ordinarily have little reason to work with someone as socially insignificant as Veronica. Veronica maintains that she bought it, but the claim does not explain how she obtained a weapon whose magic places the attack beyond her apparent reach.

The Attack and Its Discovery

Veronica is held by watery magical bindings while Alice confronts her, and guards eventually arrive to take custody of her. Alice releases the bindings only when the guards can restrain Veronica themselves, shifting the scene from private interrogation to formal capture. Alice threatens that Veronica will not endure the torturer’s blade for long, although she also acknowledges that interrogation is not her particular strength. The threat produces fear, not the identity of the person who supplied or commissioned the weapon.

The attempted murder is revealed to have targeted both members of the household. Matheus explains that the knife was not meant only for him because it had been placed on Alice’s side of the bed. Its enchantment was designed to kill a witch as well as a vampire. The blade therefore converts what might have appeared to be a single assassination into a double attack, aimed at Matheus, Alice, and the family they are building together. The location of the knife supplies the material proof of that intention more decisively than Veronica’s denials do.

Recognition and Immediate Consequences

The failed attack produces a rapid reversal in the household’s condition. Matheus and Alice have survived, but their sense of safety changes into suspicion and defensive resolve. Alice had already understood the danger when she saw the blade; Matheus’s explanation confirms that the weapon was specifically suited to destroy both of them. The silver is not merely a physical instrument. Its embedded magic gives it the capacity to cross species vulnerabilities, making the object itself a decisive agent in the plot.

The event also reveals the likely motive behind the attack. Alice identifies the probable enemy as a vengeful, grief-driven witch, a description that makes the danger more serious than Veronica’s individual capabilities suggest. The arrest therefore closes only the most visible part of the incident. Veronica is removed by the guards, while the person who persuaded her, supplied the weapon, or directed the assault remains unknown and potentially free to act again.

Family, Threat, and Aftermath

After Veronica is taken away, Alice tends to Matheus physically, kissing his shoulder and neck and holding him around the waist while he remains distant and angry. Their tenderness is set against the threat of violence: affection does not erase the danger, but it gives the survivors a shared position from which to face it. Alice promises that they will discover who convinced Veronica and prevent that person from attempting the same thing again.

Matheus responds with a much harsher vow of retribution, declaring that whoever tried to harm his family will regret it and will have “hell to pay.” The line marks a change in his emotional state. Alice hears a hatred in him that she has never heard before, showing that the attack has reached beyond political or personal hostility and touched the protection of his household at its most intimate point.

Alice’s final resolve makes the stakes explicit: she will protect Matheus and their unborn child, regardless of what that protection requires. The attempted assassination thus ends without a death but not without lasting consequence. It confirms that Matheus and Alice are being treated as a joint target, exposes the reach of dark magic into their private life, and turns their pregnancy and family bond into both the motive for their enemies and the source of their determination to resist them.