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 the

you're talking about? And why haven't we talked about

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that's why it wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful. He probabl

existed and we had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka

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 to wait till they get

the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have

doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or

of the money trail together before they get back to make sure

be

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need to

kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make a bunch

everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security

looking harried

I said, my voice barely

"What's

to that. What

palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated.

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

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in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are

to be right and the merchants

my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could

"Not an option?"

not one we would have

the

"Which is?"

I reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've

shook his head. "I can't. We

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