The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 109

CH109 Tsunco

I clenched my fists, the realization sending a fresh wave of anger through me.

Had he been behind that idiot's access to poison?

What other strings had he been pulling in the palace all this time?

I turned sharply, heading back toward my office, my mind racing ahead. If the funds were being funneled to Elia, that meant there was a trail. He would have left traces, contacts, payments, something that could lead me directly to where he was staying. I didn't want to have to wait for news about Ari to reach him, assuming that he cared about her at all.

This time, he wouldn't be so lucky as to just vanish into wilderness of the celestial realm.

I was going to exile him in the most painful way possible so he could live the rest of his life with his phoenix.

When I reached my office, I closed the door behind me. I opened the door between my and my father's office. Sota hadn't moved from his spot, but he was still working. Good.

He was probably working toward some sort of leniency.

Hours passed, and the tension between my eyebrows was building at a steady pace. A knock at the door interrupted my thoughts. Sota was still working quietly and Renji hadn't come to see me. "Enter," I said, my voice cold and steady.

The whole of my father's harem harem members entered my office. I wasn't surprised. They were

most likely here to co

about the seizure of their treasury keys.

Lady Maro glared at me. "You overstep your place."

"And yet you have come to speak to me," I said. "I assume my father told you that you are to deal

with me and not him."

She flushed.

"The King refuses to see us," one of them whined, her voice filled with a mixture of entitlement and petulance. "It is our right."

1/5

CH109

you an audience," I said.

know anything about what

smirked. "I know plenty. You are a concubine

snarled. "You think you have power now, but

to entertain you.

them protested, her voice rising. "He has

shook my head, my eyes filled with a mixture

has

health. He will see you when he feels

will return our treasury keys to us. We have

the ledgers, you all are

king

scoffed and stood. "Fine, since you wish to be

rounded the table. "I would

I grew nearer, I started to slow. There was something telling

guards seemed unusually quiet, their eyes filled

"Is everything alright?"

seen the King in days," he replied. "It is... unlike

night."

started to race. Had

come out in

They shook their head.

2/5

CH109

"Food?"

by the time of the next meal it is still

pushed past them into my father's chambers, opening the doors quickly, searching

here, Tsuneo, Tarofu

Where is he?

response was seemed lost in the panic. I turned back to

a

nodded and one of them left. The other remained. I looked at the concubines and signaled for

them back to

"But-

I say or you will

but they turned and followed the

to find my father, I had to know he was safe. I couldn't even hear Tarofu's voice at the back of

might be in the chamber where my mother was. I willed myself to go there, but I couldn't. I checked the gardens he usually went to, but he