Chapter 164

The next morning, Xandar scrolled through the headlines on his phone while he waited for Lucianne to fix her hair, which already looked perfect to him. After reading a few articles on the corruption case, he smiled, and picked the best one as he approached his beautiful mate. His arms crept around her waist from behind as he handed his phone to her and said, “Have a read, sweetheart.”

Xandar inhaled Lucianne’s scent from her neck when she skimmed through the article. It reported on the trial, and reproduced the statement the four of them collectively wrote while they were in the court cafeteria the previous day.

When Lucianne reached the end of the statement, her body stiffened. Her widened eyes were still fixed on the screen when she asked, “Why is my name above yours?”

Xandar’s lips curled into a smile at her neck when he explained in amusement, “Because it was your idea, my love. Why do you seem so surprised?”

“Because the Queen’s name normally comes after the King’s?” Lucianne pointed out matter-of-factly.

Xandar showed a disgusted look before saying, “That wouldn’t be fair. You want to burn down the patriarchy, don’t you? I’m helping you do just that, in my own little way for my own little freesia.”

“This is NOT a little way at all, Xandar.” Lucianne noted firmly, and turned to see his affectionate lilac eyes gazing deeply into hers while his head rested on her shoulder. She pecked a kiss on his nose and uttered gratefully, “Thank you, my love.”

He scoffed before kissing her on the cheek and turning her around as he declared, “Babe, the three of us should be thanking you. None of us had a solution. I, for one, assumed that Cummings, Martin and the others were going to drag the whole governing body with them into the tainted parts of history.”

people seem to be trusting the monarchy and the government more than they did before. You were right, Lucy! Explaining the debacle to them, without sugar-coating or blame-shoving, made them feel…assured. Owning up to it made them feel assured. Lowering tax because of the debacle made them happy, and it was only lowered

sentence coming out of his mouth made her feel…worthy. Despite her rejections, Lucianne had taught herself to never feel worthless, justifying it by the fact that she was alive, and she was a warrior,

never felt this level of worth that Xandar was showering over her through his words alone.

a deep kiss before they parted their lips, and she

broadened before he said, “I

demanded the usual response, and Lucianne chuckled before she said,

kept pestering its human part to bring up with their mate. And that was exactly what Xandar did. “What I don’t love are those idiots in the comments section flirting with you. The emoji with hearts in its eyes are way too much, and honestly, very anger-inductive. Can’t they read the word ‘Queen’ before your name?! And it doesn’t take an expert to guess that they are NOT the King. I AM. Seriously, they’re just looking for a way

deep kiss. “I’m with you, my indecent beast. Only you.”

calmer, she dragged him by his arm to the door before their conversation prolonged. Xandar’s Lycan was so happy

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before to the charges against her, so there was no further questioning needed in her case. Xandar and Christian were both trying to press back smiles, with the second-in-command having a harder time doing it

then granted the prosecution permission to begin questioning Pierre Whitlaw. What caught Lucianne’s eye wasn’t the minister in his dark blue tuxedo and well-ironed white shirt but a woman sitting alone in

aisle.

his wife.’Xandar linked her when he

I know, darling. I’ve seen her in the tabloids whenever Whitlaw is in the news. She looked beautiful in those pictures but she looks even more

Xandar sighed and linked, ‘You only say that because you don’t have a mirror with you, babe. If you haven’t noticed, every man in the room has

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