The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Sylvia's POV:

Noreen was too cunning. Until now, I still couldn't figure out her true purpose.

If she didn't hate Ethan, why did she insist on killing him?

My thoughts wandered to all the things that she had done. It didn't seem like she had a clear purpose either.

It seemed like everyone around me had already been Noreen's pawns.

"Actually, there's another thing I haven't told you," Joanna suddenly said.

"What is it?"

lowering her head and clenching her fists. "Because

myself lucky to have Harry as my friend, then," I replied. I wasn't surprised or disappointed at

before she added, "You know what? After we got along with each other, I thought you were a good person. That's why I delayed the task for as long as I could. I actually didn't go there to kill Ethan. I just received a secret signal requiring a meeting.

Noreen leave the secret signal for you?" I asked with

I denied it after careful consideration. If it was a secret signal that my adoptive mother left, she would have also left a totem of the Big Dipper, but I didn't find it this time. She took so much effort to raise me and train me to be a killer because she wanted me to kill the king someday. I just don't see it as why she wanted to frame

there any possibility that Noreen found out that you wanted

She looked down and anxiously fiddled

wavering and that you didn't want to frame me, so she decided to get rid of you," I added. I also hoped it wasn't true, but I just couldn't think of any other possibilities. No matter how I looked at the matter, Noreen still remained our prime suspect. "But if she could easily take action against the king without me, why did she order me to assassinate him?" Joanna asked, a hint of determination flashed across her eyes as she looked up at me.

"I don't know. I still can't understand what her real purpose is. But apart

with us all this time, since she was good at disguising herself as someone else. She could be hiding among us and I wouldn't even

of the empire, Ethan would have people test his food every single day. That meant the person who poisoned him without being