Chapter 128

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Morgan

After I gave them an overview of everything the apothecary told me, I sent a guard to go find

Doctor Shang.

I handed the list to Anya, who scanned it carefully. Her eyes widened in shock as she recognized

the names.

"This is a bigger problem than I first thought. Bigger than we could have ever imagined. Some of these people weren't even on the list of suspects."

"I imagine that's because their families are the ones funneling the money and support."

Maya nodded. "That's more likely than not. A lot of the king's harem are noble women. They have their own money. Thrown dowries that are separate from the king's Treasury."

Do we have a way to trace that access to the kingdom's Treasury? Financial records or something?"

"Probably.What do we do?"

"We need a way to expose them. Something they can't just weasel out of."

"What if we test the royal children?"

"What?"

"If any of them are not the King's children, that would be proof they have them in loyal at minimum. We have a lot of grounds to start interrogating them about what other traitorous things they've been doing, leveraging it against their families. We could stop the money flow by

force."

Maya and I exchanged glances. "The test only tells you if the child is of the royal line though."

"There are other ways to tell lineage. What about the scroll?"

forgot about

And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have cleared

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The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let Ari

to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

do it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do we have

might be better to do it when they get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with

want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or love for the kids that

I want to at least have most of the money trail together before they get back to make sure that he doesn't have a chance to

be

"And what about you?"

stood and sighed. "I need to go speak to my

was the future King, and it was his duty to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make

of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't

looking harried as he poured over

my voice barely a whisper. "We need to

up. "What's wrong?

What are

the palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated.

voice barely a whisper.

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a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are capable of making the robes in

have to be right and the merchants

a whisper. "They might have tailors who

"Not an option?"

It's just not one we

the easiest

"Which is?"

talk about it." I reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said,

can't. We don't have

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