"Please do not hurt me, I beg of you it is not what you think It is!!" He pleads for his life, this was why he hates following Asher's stupid plan, now look at where he was.
If he knew that Orla was skilled in Martial arts and could wield a weapon effectively then he would have never come in the first place, he would've slapped some sense into his half brother and told him a big fat no. But now he wasn't even sure if he would make it out alive.
"It's all part of his plan, he wanted to fake the decree being stolen so he gave it...