The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Rufus' POV:

After Flora and Joanna left, I remained quietly on the throne for a while, thinking about our conversations from earlier. Then, I asked a subordinate beside me, "What do you think of their stories?" As for me, I didn't buy a single word of it. Actually, both their accounts were consistent, but they were pretty far-fetched.

Joanna was brought up by Noreen and was trained as a killer since she was a child.

I had never met Noreen in person, but I knew from my mother that that black witch was a ruthless and powerful woman. Noreen would never do meaningless things, nor waste her time cultivating a fool. Since Joanna could disguise as a boy and lurk in the school and the army for so long, she must have a rigorous and low-key way of doing things. If that was the case, stealing a dress would be the last thing she would do. Her justification for trying on the dress was that she was sick of wearing men's clothes all the time.

She would never do such a stupid thing.

Besides, Alina was a vindictive woman. Would she be so forgiving if she found out that Joanna had stolen her dress?

a living hell. But as far as I could tell, Alina and Joanna used to

loopholes in Flora's and Joanna's stories, but I couldn't seem to point a finger on a glaring mistake. So I had to let them go

online with the photos of Alpha Crystal snapped from the surveillance footage, and found that there was no useful information about her everywhere. Later, our spies claimed Flora had spent the night at Crystal's, so I set

also don't believe what they just said?" I asked

said nothing. His mere silence confirmed

Joanna thought they had deceived everyone, but their clumsy lies were too apparent. Only fools would believe

the picture only showed the woman in profile and was not enough to prove that it was

Crystal's background is too clean. I find it a

"Of course it's strange. How could a person not leave any information on the Internet at

but I had seen Flora's demeanor. It was obvious that she was guilty. The moment she heard I wanted to see Joanna, she