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Chapter 72
Chapter 72
Xandar groaned in frustration when Lucianne stopped him from kissing her on her lips. Christian chuckled while Juan pressed back a smile.
Lucianne pushed herself off the table, joining the rest of the alliance on their feet. Xandar held her firmly by her waist to make sure she didn’t go any further. He pecked a kiss on her temple before he turned to everyone and said, “Wu Bi Corp is a company that Lucy, Christian, I and a few others have been investigating for a few days. When we hit a dead end, Christian and I pulled some strings. But our contacts haven’t been able to dig up anything yet. He…” his head gestured at the rogue in the next room,”…seems to have given us the fastest ticket to get to the bottom of what we’re investigating.”
Zelena spoke, “Your Highness, I don’t mean to pry but I have to ask: this investigation, does it involve the safety of our packs?” Every wolf in the room was visibly worried for their respective packs.
Xandar furrowed his eyebrows as he matched their worry, “Before today, it didn’t. Not directly at least.”
“What does that mean, your Highness?” Toby asked. And Tate nudged his Gamma for wanting to poke into government issues.
Xandar saw it so he said, “No, it’s alright, Alpha Tate. It’s only natural to worry about the safety of your packs. Well, what we were investigating on Wu Bi Corp was concerning the provision of aid after a rogue attack. This rogue here is pointing us to the source of the attacks instead. He and his kind seem to have a good-enough system in place to threaten the safety of our people. The fact that they had enough members to be ranked is just…” Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.
Xandar sighed in dismay as his hand ran through his hair in frustration. Lucianne placed her hand on his arm and her thumb started stroking that area in soothing motions before Xandar continued, “It’s just
unbelievable. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t manage to find them before they cost the lives of so many innocent people.”
Lucianne uttered firmly, “Xandar, you didn’t know. No one did. Stop blaming yourself. You heard what he said about credentials. The key was to be untraceable.”
Toby, being more comfortable than most of the wolves since the King was his best friend’s mate, said, “And let’s face it, your Highness. You have two very useless ministers running the Defence Ministry. There was no oof,”
Tate elbowed Toby in his abdomen as the Alpha hissed softly, “Toby, now you have to apologize.”
Xandar chuckled lightly as he said, “Even if he does, I wouldn’t accept it, Alpha Tate. Gamma Tobias is right. But those ministers will be gone soon enough. This decision was made a few days ago but we’re keeping it quiet until we have all the evidence we need.”
The wolves were surprised at this revelation but their shock was quickly followed by smiles and excitement
Lovelace muttered in satisfaction, “About damn time.”
“Very sorry it took this long, Luna Lovelace.” Xandar uttered sincerely. Everyone, except Christian and Lucy, couldn’t believe what they just heard. The King was apologizing to her? H e was apologizing to a wolf?
Luna Lovelace recovered from her own astonishment before smiling gratefully, “As Lucy said, my King. You didn’t know. What matters is that you’re now aware, and that you’re taking necessary measures with the ministers and with the rogue attacks.”
Lucy’s voice then filled the room, “We’re slightly at fault with the ongoing rogue attacks as well if you thought about it.”
When everyone’s attention was fixed on her, she continued, “We’ve slaughtered countless rogues but we’ve never thought of keeping even one alive to question. We just assumed that the rogues ran among a few of their kind. What if this whole time, they weren’t a few rogue
packs but one mega rogue corporation?”
After a moment of dead silence, Toby muttered, “That’s sh*t scary.”
Juan then thought aloud, “But also hopeful.” He locked eyes with his sister-like figure and said, “If we took down the corporation housing them,”
Luna Lovelace caught on, “We put an end to the strength of their attacks on our packs and our allies. Soon, we’d be able to eliminate them all.”
Raden then huffed as he said, “I have always wondered where they were getting silver blades from since three years ago.”
Toby then exclaimed, “It makes sense! They have a supplier and maybe even a medical team That’s how some of them run away injured from one pack only to come back strong again in another pack a few weeks later.”
Xandar instinctively held Lucianne closer to his body at the mention of silver before he asked Raden, “Did most rogues carry a silver blade?”
“No, my King. In an attack, maybe one or two. Because the rogues themselves were wolves, and unlike Lycans, they wouldn’t have been able to hold the silver blade in their hands. Those who have the blades normally don’t shift, and they come out last on the battlefield to surprise us. Essentially, to stab us while we‘re focusing on the shifted rogues.”
Xandar stiffened again at the word ‘stab’. Lucianne continued to stroke his shoulder from his side to calm him down. Xandar pondered before he took a good look at the alliance and asked in concern, “How many of you here have been stabbed by the blade before, if I may ask?”
Toby answered for everyone, “Uh, none of us have, your Highness. Apart from Lucy, none of u
s would’ve survived a stab. The rogue in the next room wasn’t exaggerating. The amount of silver on those blades was lethal. The friends we lost were stabbed before Lucy could…”
Toby stopped when he noticed his best friend shooting him a glare with a slight shake of her head. Her thumb on Xandar’s shoulder had stopped moving. And Toby’s hand reached for his mouth like he just said something he shouldn’t have. Xandar glanced at his fierce-looking mate before he turned back to the guilty-looking Gamma and asked, “Before Lucy could what, Gamma Tobias?”
“Uh…” Toby looked nervously at Lucianne. Xandar took a quick glance at the rest of the alliance who all seemed to know what he was going to say.