The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 128

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 up the whole

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is very

if the scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew for certain

Can we do it while they're gone?

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

chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty

money trail together before they get back to make sure that he doesn't have a chance to have any doubts.

it would be

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need

at this point made the most sense. He 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 a bunch

the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who

in his office looking harried as he poured over

my voice barely

"What's wrong? I

get to that. What

palace. Where'd

eyes turned frustrated. "Merchant

it going?" I asked, my voice barely a

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"I can't find any other

with the Convening. They have to be right and the merchants that

territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could

"Not an option?"

one

the easiest

"Which is?"

resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've been working

head. "I can't. We

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