Exchanging Vows: The Swapped Wife Is a Top Shaman novel Chapter 125

Chapter 125: Chapter 125

Ivy’s Point of View

The wails of the newborn princess had finally softened into a gentle, rhythmic breathing against the clean sheets. Inside the inner delivery chamber. Alpha Alaric stood tall beside the bed, he carefully carried his newborn daughter into the room. He laid the tiny bundle into the carved cradle next to the mattress, his hand gently tracing her soft cheek.

Luna Helena’s eyes fluttered, her face completely pale with an exhaustion after the traumatic birthing process. Within minutes, she fell completely asleep from sheer physical fatigue.

Alaric drew himself up to his full height, his wolf eyes burning with an intense, unyielding protective instinct as he turned his gaze onto me.

"Watch over her, Ivy," he rumbled softly. "The high judges of the Ministry are still combing the outer boundaries, but they have found nothing. I have left the words ’the full moon will return’ for the elders. I am taking Bastian and our elite warriors to launch an aggressive investigation all over the shifter kingdoms and packs."

"Be careful, Father," I warned him. "The thief knows our vault layouts. They are already hours ahead of your warriors."

"They won’t escape my blades, Ivy," Alpha Alaric hissed through his clenching jaw,  he slipped through the gallery hatch without a single backwards glance.

The next morning, the bright winter sun cracked against the frost-covered window panes. Luna Helena woke up with a sudden, tense start, her hand instinctively sweeping across the empty space on the mattress beside her. She snapped her head toward my chair.

"Ivy... where is Alaric? Why is he completely missing from the pavilion?"

I set my tea tray down onto the side table with a light click, realizing that keeping the supreme Luna blind would only fracture her alignment meridians. I walked over to the bedpost, looking straight into her searching eyes.

"Mother, I am directly confessing the truth to you right now. The ancient iron box containing our founding ancestor’s combination device has been stolen. The Alpha King has deployed his executioners, and Father has already left the capital palace to track the thief across the borders."

To my absolute, profound surprise, Luna Helena remained exceptionally calm after learning about this catastrophic breach. She didn’t scream or thrash against the pillows; instead, a cold, weary smile touched her lips.

"Do not look so terrified, Ivy," Helena assured, her tone flat and chillingly steady at the same time. "The ancestral iron box has actually been targeted and stolen many times before throughout our pack’s history. The combination disc holds the winning combination of our founding ancestors, a war secret capable of winning a whole sovereign country.”

“A certain foreign country across the Great Rift has long coveted that iron box for generations. They want to bypass the Alpha King entirely and seize the ultimate upper hand over our shifter kingdoms. This is an old debt, my clever girl."

One Month Later:

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