Chapter 126
Lucianne coughed profusely after choking on the broli she was chewing in her mouth when they were
told that Christian was one of the people they’d have to investigate for sexual harassment.
Her choking made Xandar’s eyes snapped wider in worry as he took his phone from her hand and
ced i t on the couch while he rubbedforting circles on her back, holding a ss of water near her.
“My Queen! Are you alright?!” Weaver’s panicked voice came through the line.
After a few more coughs, Lucianne took a few sips of water before she managed to say, “F-Fine, Sir
Weaver. Thank -” Cough. “Thank you. Sorry about that, Lord Yarrington. Please continue.”
Weaver spoke before his mate could, “My Queen, this is entirely our fault. You shouldn’t have to
apologize.”
Lord Yarrington sounded guilty when he said, “Apologies, my Queen. I didn’t mean to startle you.”
“No no. I’m fine. Please continue the uhints made against Christian. Who are they?” Lucianne
insisted as she took sips from the ss of water Xandar ced into her hands, prompting her to drink itt
o clear her throat.
Yarrington proceeded to exin, “The teninants are all wolves from different packs, my Queen.
And the range of theints goes back ten years, one in each year. But there’s also a possibility that
this may be a falseint lodged for…nderous intentions.”
Xandar then asked, “What makes you say that?”
“Well, my King. There have been threeints made against Weaver, alleging that, on separate
asions, Weaver coerced theinants into performing sexual intercourse at a nightclub in the
neighboring town. I checked the times and dates the purported intercourses took ce, and I found that
it can’t be true. Weaver and I were together on all three asions. The first one was when we were both
at a gender-reveal party at my sister’s ce; the second was when we were at the movies on our
anniversary; and the third was the night when Weaver had food poisoning, and I was by his side all day
as he made frequent trips to the washroom. It couldn’t be Weaver.” 1
“Maybe it was just someone who looked like Weaver and the women were confused?” Xandar
suggested.
Weaver spoke next, “That was what we thought at first, too, my King. But we think that it’s too much of a
coincidence that three people from the coboration can mistake me for someone else. Your
Highnesses, we think that someone may be trying to…have this swept under the mat. Seeing as how
close you both are to the Duke, imnting fakeints may be a way to defeat the progress of the
investigation.” 1
“Well, we can’t let that happen.” Xandar muttered.
Lucianne then asked, “Are Sir Weaver’sinants wolves as well, Lord Yarrington?”
“Yes, my Queen.”
“Which packs are they from?”
“Uh…just a moment, my Queen.” There were a few clicking sounds before Yarrington responded, “ck
River, Fleet Woods and Night Pine.”
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Lucianne scoffed, “Fleet Woods hasn’t existed since a rogue massacre four years ago. No one survived.
I’ll check with the Alphas of ck River and…”
“That’s actually a brilliant idea!” Weaver was so excited that he identally cut Lucianne off. She didn’t
mind but Xandar did. To calm her beast, she stroked his arm as she mouthed, ‘It’s okay.’
Weaver’s enthusiastic voice continued to ring through, “We’ll just cross-check theinants’ names
from every pack to see if they exist!”.
Yarrington then built up on his mate’s efforts, “Yes, I probably should have thought of doing that.”
Xandar then said, “In the meantime, there needs to be a change in who gets involved in this
investigation.” Everyone was silent as they waited for their King to continue. “I now see why you both
suspect that whoever made these falseints either have nderous intentions or intentions of
forcing us to close this matter without following through what we promised to our people.”
He held onto his mate’s small hand before he uttered, “They must have known that the ones involved in
this investigation are Christian, you and me, Yarrington. So, they used Weaver to get you off the
investigation because of the conspicuous conflict of interest seeing that he’s your mate. And they lodged
ints against my cousin and second-inmand to remove his right to investigate, and to remove my
right because of the conflict of interest I have seeing that he’s my confidant.”
Lucianne stroked his hand tofort him as he continued, “Since Weaver is in the clear now, he can
help you with the investigation but I’m afraid the Duke and I have to step aside for now, in the name of
fairness and transparency. Yarrington, the reins are yours. Appoint whoever you deem necessary. Find
out who’s ying with us. They’re going to wish they made aint against me instead of my best
friend.”
There was a moment of silence, and Xandar had to take a whiff of Lucianne’s scent from her hair just to
cool his radiating anger. Lucianne was getting ufortable with the ensuing silence so she asked, “Sir
Weaver, Lord Yarrington, is that okay?”
“Y-Yes, of course, my Queen.” Weaver said.
Yarrington then spoke seriously, “We’ll look into it and try to get to the bottom of things as soon as
possible, your Highnesses. And, my King, for the Duke’s…issue, would you like me to tell him?”
“That won’t be necessary, Yarrington. I’ll do it.” Xandar responded immediately.
“Yes, that would be better. Weaver and I will get to it now. Have a good night, my King, my Queen.”
Yarrington said.
“Good night.” Xandar and Lucianne uttered in unison.
As soon as he hung up on Yarrington and Weaver, Xandar mind-linked his cousin, ‘Hey, Christian.’
‘What’s with the ominous tone, cuz? Is the Queen alright?’
‘She’s fine. This is about the sexual harassmentints.’
‘Oh, right! It’s been one week already. Okay, where do we start? What do we do?’
‘Nothing
‘What?’
‘Yarrington is taking the lead. We both can’t be privy to the investigation in any way for now because…
tenints have been made against you, Christian’ There was a moment of silence before
Christian’s angered voice linked back, ‘WHAT THE F*CK!!!’