Nine Hot Therians and Their Only One Queen novel Chapter 942

Chapter 942 Getting Prepared

What did she mean by painting the town?

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He couldn’t shake the feeling that his huntress was excited enough to burn the whole Executive Department to the ground.

Outside the castle, Gaellard had already cycled through more than a dozen different outfits.

He looked at his carefully groomed reflection in the mirror and finally nodded with satisfaction.

He turned and made his way over to where Andre was sitting.

“I got word there’s a banquet tonight at the Executive Department,” he said. “I hear Silas is bringing Emma along.”

He looked at Andre, seated on his throne of ice, and tossed an invitation into his lap with an easy grin.

“Don’t say I never looked out for you. Whether you show up or not is entirely on you.”

Gaellard had learned his lesson by now. He had no intention of recklessly barging in and making things awkward for Emma.

But he also refused to just sit around waiting endlessly.

Even if he went and did nothing more than watch Emma from a distance, quietly keeping an eye on her, that alone felt worthwhile.

Still, he didn’t want to go alone. If anything went wrong, if things actually blew up, he figured he might as well drag Andre down with him too. At least then they’d share the blame together.

Andre looked at the invitation Gaellard had thrown his way.

He didn’t bother asking how Gaellard had gotten that information, or how he’d managed to get his hands on an invitation to the Executive Department’s private banquet in the first place.

“I’m going,” Andre said flatly, looking straight at Gaellard.

“I’m only going to keep an eye on you, to make sure you don’t go bothering Emma.”

Gaellard was quiet.

Was that supposed to make sense coming from him?

If Gaellard himself hadn’t had questionable motives of his own, he might have actually cursed Andre out right there on the spot.

“Don’t act like you’re some noble creature,” Gaellard snapped. “You’re worried I’ll bother Emma? I’m more worried you’ll act creepy around her.”

Andre stayed quiet.

His hands were itching with the urge to strangle Gaellard right then and there.

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Chapter 942 Getting Prepared

That evening, the grand hall of the Executive Department blazed with brilliant light, shimmering and radiant.

The moment Emma walked into the banquet hall on Silas‘ arm, every eye in the room turned toward her instantly.

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Silas wore his formal executive white uniform that night, its golden trim complementing his deep blue hair beautifully, giving him an air of gentle, almost holy radiance.

Emma, meanwhile, wore the pale blue gown he’d personally chosen for her, and she looked like a blue flower blooming quietly atop some distant snowcapped peak, understated yet underably breathtaking.

Every guest previously engaged in idle conversation and clinking glasses froze the moment they caught sight of her.

Nearly every gaze in the room turned toward Emma at once.

“Goodness, who is that woman Consul Hamblin brought with him?”

“Is that his huntress? Is that the famous Emma?”

“She’s absolutely stunning.”

Hushed whispers rippled uncontrollably through the crowd.

“That has to be Emma. Consul Hamblin would never allow himself to appear this close with any other female.”

Every male in that room had his own private tally running in his head.

Rumors about Emma had already spread like wildfire through the inner circles of every major therian family in the empire.

Their fascination with her ran far deeper than just her striking beauty. It came down to the sheer roster of partners standing behind her, a collection of power and military strength that practically defined the ceiling of what the interstellar empire had to offer.

Word had it that the great shifter families of the Central Planet had even placed absurd sums of money on the black market, all just to get their hands on Emma’s daily schedule.

Their goal was almost universally identical: get their family’s finest young male in front of Emma, by any means necessary.

After all, if a man managed to earn even the smallest place at Emma’s side, no matter how minor the title, he could technically claim brotherhood with Silas, Lucien, and even that ruthlessly decisive Calum.

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Not to mention Drake, ruler of the three domains, and the young lord of Frostveil Wolves, along with Corvin, Malrik, Edric, and

Kieran.

Every single one of them stood among the empire’s absolute elite.

Word had it that Emma’s castle currently housed a male who’d descended straight from the Beast God Mountain. That alone meant he’d once served directly beside the Beast God, and there was no need to guess at the sheer, immeasurable scale of his true strength.

Forming a connection with any of these men meant a family could practically walk through the Empire untouchable from that point forward.

The resources alone would be more than they could ever count.

Beautiful as that dream sounded, reality proved far less forgiving.

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Chapter 942 Getting Prepared

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Emma herself lived an extremely private, low profile life, rarely leaving her home and steering entirely clear of these kinds of social gatherings built on status and connections.

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