The Cursed Prince's Strange Bride

Chapter 304 What Hunting Ground?

Once the group all settled back down after Harold's assault on Lance, they returned their attention to the point that Lance had raised.

While some of them believed that it could be the physician's son. Some of them thought that they couldn't just conclude that the physician's son or someone close to the family who had access to the physician's beta's nightmare was seeking vengeance.

Even if their best bet was that the potion had been fed to Alicia and Lance, there was still a possibility that it might be some other kind of potion they didn't know about.

But regardless of whatever potion it was, the question now on all their minds was WHO? Who was this person messing with all of them?

"How is it possible that the physician's son might be in the palace? I mean, he was very young at the time his father was killed, and he was young at the time of the first prince's death, right?" Susan asked quietly, shuddering at the thought that such a vengeful enemy was walking around the palace.

"Maybe someone he trusted brought him into the palace?" Lance asked.

"Or he may be dead or sold as a slave somewhere else, while the person doing this is someone else," Luciana said reasonably, and Harold looked from Alvin to Harvey, silently communicating with them before looking at the rest of the group.

"We need to leave for the palace," Harold said, but Alicia shook her head.

"Not so soon. Before we leave, I want to know about everything. I want to know all that happened and how I ended up in the dungeon. I also want to hear what Tyra said, and I want to know the present state of things at the palace," Alicia said, looking at Harold.

He held her gaze for a moment, and when he saw the determination in her eyes, he gave her a nod. He then looked at Susan, since amongst them all, she seemed to know better.

Alvin had been by his side, nursing him, so he didn't really know much of what happened that night.

Susan sat up and cleared her throat as she began to narrate.

"We were all at the hunting ground when the maid raised the alarm..."

"What hunting ground?" Alicia asked, and at the same time, Susan received a sharp glare from Harold and immediately realized her slip-up. She was tired of hiding this, and it wasn't easy controlling the kinds of things she said. Why did the King have to put this pressure on them to not utter a word about their kind to her?

Anyway, they could understand why. How would Princess Amber react if she happened to know?

"What were you doing in the hunting ground at night?" Alicia interrupted with a frown, remembering how she had felt the whole place was silent and deserted.

She looked at Harold with a frown, wondering why they all left her alone in the palace to go hunting. She could remember how he insisted she stay in her room. Why?

All eyes turned to Harold, and he shifted uncomfortably. "It's part of the banquet ceremony," Harold said without meeting her gaze, and Alicia snorted.

"What do you people think you are hunting on a full moon? Werewolves?" She asked with a shake of her head, and they all looked at each other but nobody said anything, leaving Alicia to think they were looking at each other because they had no idea what a werewolf was even though Harold seemed to have had an idea when they talked about it. But before she could explain that to them, something else occurred to her.

"Wait, so you were hurt during the hunt?" She asked when she remembered that Susan had told her Harold had been shot by an arrow.

"Yes," Harold said with a nod. "You should let her continue if we are going to leave today," Harold said, and Alicia gestured to Susan to continue.

"We got to the palace and saw you and Princess Tyra lying there unconscious, and Beth was dead."

"What did the maid say?" Alicia asked curiously, even though Susan had given her some updates while she was in the dungeon.

"She said you were attacking Beth and Princess Tyra," Williams responded, and Alicia frowned.

"Where is the maid? Can I talk to her?" Alicia asked, but Harold shook his head.

"She is dead."

Alicia looked at him in surprise and asked, "Did you kill her?"

"Do you think I am a monster who enjoys killing people?" He asked, slightly annoyed, while the others exchanged looks and just cleared their throats as they pretended not to hear that.

Ignoring them, Harold explained to her. "Someone already killed her before Alvin could find her. She was dead before I woke up," he said with a frustrated sigh that Alicia took as sadness as the sole witness was dead.

But Alvin, on the other hand, could guess that the reason Harold had been annoyed and now sounded frustrated was because he didn't get the chance to kill her himself before someone else did. He only hoped that he wouldn't take out that frustration on her poor twin.

"So why were Princess Tyra and Beth in the palace with the maid if everyone else went to the hunting ground?" Alicia asked thoughtfully. This was more complicated than she had thought.

"I asked Princess Tyra to stay back because she was feeling unwell, and the maid stayed back to nurse her. I have no idea why Beth stayed back or why no one noticed her absence," Harold said since they couldn't explain to her that the maid who had stayed back was an Omega werewolf and Tyra had let her stay for that reason.

Alicia didn't want to believe that someone was probably trying to use Tyra against her because she didn't think Tyra had any reason to want to kill her and hurt Prince Harold. But it was concerning that she had stayed back and also been at the scene.