The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 128

Chapter 128

CH128

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?"

"I forgot about

talking about? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the whole thing with

1/4

CH128

brought up. The king is very merciful.

access to it, I knew

children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do we have to wait

be better to do it when they get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have it stricken from the official

it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty

records for their families. 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

would be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

need to

to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on

wonder why everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me

found him in his office looking

barely a whisper. "We need

"What's wrong? I

that. What are

the palace.

turned

I asked, my voice barely a whisper. "What are you looking

2/4

CH128

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

have to be right and the merchants that used to make them are

could try reaching out to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors

"Not an option?"

one we would have

there's the

"Which is?"

shoulder.

"I can't. We don't

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255