Ivy’s Point of View
Ivy’s Point of View
Dominic and I are inside his father’s study early that morning, to report exactly what our shadow guard had overheard through the rooftop the night before.
"What did you just say, Dominic?" Alpha Alaric asked. He stood behind his desk, his eyes blazed with an fury. "My mother... the former supreme Luna... you are telling me her sudden stroke years ago wasn’t a natural failure? You suspect there is a foul, invisible execution behind her death?"
"The hallucinogens completely fractured Mrs. Margot’s sanity last night, Father," Dominic explained. "Her sleep talk was entirely fragmented, but she explicitly shouted about sending my grandmother to the underworld with just two simple pieces of ginseng." Dominic paused, wanting his father to process it.
Alpha Alaric was speechless for so while, but I gave Dominic the look, for him to proceed.
"Ivy analyzed the medical mechanics immediately—if those roots were pre-soaked in a Moon Shadow Hound saliva and sun-dried, it would trigger a violent, natural-looking stroke the exact second they were boiled for tea."
Alpha Alaric paced frantically back and forth across the room.
"But Dominic, a drug-induced nightmare cannot stand as a formal accusation in front of the King’s council. We have absolutely no physical proof. If we want to turn your inference into undeniable evidence, we must trace the hands that brewed that tea."
"Ivy suggested hunting down the personal housemaid who served my grandmother back then," Dominic muttered.
Alpha Alaric let out a sigh, his shoulders slumping with a frustration.
"It is too late for a simple palace search, my son. Years ago, when my mother passed, she left behind exactly four personal maids who managed her daily kitchen. One of them died of a sudden, suspicious fever just months after the funeral. The other three were immediately arranged to marry by Mrs. Margot herself." Alpha said.
The way I see Dominic reaction, it mirrored mine.
"They were sent far away to distant, minor packs outside our borders, and their current locations and identities are completely unknown to us. Now, we are facing a complete lack of evidence to launch an investigation without alerting the enemy’s allies." Alpha Alaric continued.
"Mrs. Margot didn’t just protect herself inside our pack, Father. She also gave birth to two powerful children... one of whom is our aunt, Aithusa, who reigns securely as the King’s favored royal concubine in the capital palace. Their faction holds the strings to the royal guard." Dominic said.
This make sense, because Margot is protected.
"Aithusa has the King’s ear every single night, Dominic," Alpha Alaric said softly. "If she realizes we are scratching at her mother’s past, she won’t take it likely."
"Then we must seize the only remaining witness who can bridge the gap between their plots and our territory," Dominic suggested sharply, a dangerous smirk touching his lips.
"My guards just intercepted an urgent tracking report from the lower borders. Father, remember the physician who was suddenly sent down to treat me during my months of coma?"
Dominic is talking about Physician Kane. The physician Aithusa had sent alongside her son, Samly.
Alpha Alaric snapped his head up. "What about him?"

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