The Werewolf King's Bride

Chapter 295: The Meeting

(From Demetrius's Perspective)

A month passed by. Our relationship kept improving as well as the workload. None of us was less busy. My wife joined a meeting for the first time today. She was very nervous, but I had to admit that she did pretty well. During the meeting, she did not appear nervous at all.

Rather, she showed her powerful side to everyone.

Today, we sat down with the kingdom visiting team to talk about the visit. I had written King Ford a letter regarding the visit and he had accepted to join. So, he was joining this meeting as Luc's assistant. Everyone else would know that his name was Evan and he was Luc's assistant.

"Thank you all for gathering here," Blue, who sat beside me at the huge table in the conference hall, said. "Today, as you all know, we are discussing about our yearly visit to each kingdom."

'Our Queen is very humble...'

'It's the first time we have been welcomed this humbly... I feel strange right now. But in a good way.'

'Her Highness and His Highness actually match this way. Her Highness is very polite while His Highness is everything she is not. They match rather well.'

Everyone had different reactions to Blue's behavior, but no one hated it. Her words were polite and clear which was very different from how I started a meeting. I surely was not polite. I just liked to state the point. But it was also fun to see her do it in her way. She was doing pretty well too.

"You all will be visiting Lacuna first and staying there for a month. Just like every other year, you will be inspecting every field to make sure Lacuna is following the rules. Send a report back to us after fifteen days. The final report should be sent within fifteen days after the visit. Then after a month, you will be visiting respectively Ataraxia, Mazazine, and Trouville.

That will be discussed later. There are fifteen members, but this time, the master of the magic tower will be joining."

"The master of the magic tower?"

"Yes," she nodded. "He will be the leader of this visit. His assistant Evan will join as well. I hope you all will be able to collaborate."

"If it is not disrespectful, may I ask the purpose of the maser of the magic tower joining us suddenly?" the previous leader of the team asked.

He was not okay with the fact that someone else would be leading the team instead of him. Did he think he owned that position?

"Well, isn't it because we have to strengthen our team because of some rumors? I don't think James doesn't know this," she said.

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"Is Your Highness talking about those rumors regarding Lacuna trying to go against us and start a war?" he asked, squinting his already little eyes.

"Yes, I am talking about those," she said calmly. "It's not like we are going to do nothing even if they are just rumors."

"It seems James is very adamant to go against our decision. Do you have a better plan to make sure that the rumors are not true?" I asked sharply.

"No, I don't mean that, Your Highness," he said quickly. "I was just..."

"Since all the necessary information has been given to you via your files, the meeting does not need to go on any longer," I said. "The meeting is dismissed."

After everyone left, my wife looked at me sharply. "Did you get angry?" she asked innocently.

"Those fuc... Anyway, they know everything already. You did well too," I said.

"King Demetrius just got angry," King Ford chuckled.

He had come mainly to show his face to the team members. Blue said that it was important that they knew who was going with them. Luc was also present, but since he did not talk at all, it was safe to assume that he was not present.

"You get angry too quickly," Blue mumbled.

"That said, I heard the saint is missing and that's right after the King and the Queen visited the temple. I wonder if you have any connection with it," King Ford said.

"Really? We don't even believe that there can be anyone called a saint with that so-called healing power," I grumbled.

"Yes, we are atheists. Probably that's why," Blue said. "We went to the temple because I needed to show my face someday and also because of an illegal business. You surely heard about it, right?"

"Of course. The temple in Querencia is facing a backlash because of the incident," he said. "I think everyone knows about it by now."

"I never liked the temple anyway. Mom used to go there to donate, but it stopped too when she got into an argument with a priest. I think it's about the name of a tree?" Luc said.

"The name of a tree?" Blue asked, shocked.

"Apparently, Marchioness Aisha asked the name of a tree in the garden because she was testing their basic knowledge and they got it wrong. She got angry, saying that they don't know the name of a simple tree even though it is the temple's garden and the flower of the tree is known as a holy flower. After that, she never went to the temple and hates it now," I said.

I knew the story quite well because she complained a lot about it to me. King Ford looked surprised. Well, he was supposed to be since he did not know the marchioness well. She was very weird. Luc's whole family was weird. But they always stuck together.

Even idiots could make a good team if they stuck together.

"Mom told me about this incident as well," Blue said. "I laughed because I found it funny, but she was serious?"

"Why do you call Marchioness Aisha Mom? She is not your mother though," King Ford said. "Or, is the rumor true that the master of the magic tower's parents adopted you?"

"They did," she replied. "They are really cool."

"Except Luc," I added.

"You wanna fight?" Luc snarled, showing me his fist.

'What? Why are you showing me your fist? You are gonna use magic to fight anyway.'

"Stop it, you two. Why do you always fight?" Blue said. Well, she was sitting between us. She chose that position because she knew that we two would fight.

"Now, you have great connections," King Ford said, chuckling at her. "Your husband is the King and your brother is the master of the magic tower. I think it is the safest position ever where you will be protected by the two most powerful people in the kingdom."

"Yeah, that's a good thing," she laughed.

From the beginning, Luc had cared for her a lot. He had always tried to make sure that she was comfortable. His thoughts towards her were very different from other people. He considered her to be one of his closest friends and cared for her that way. I never had to worry about Luc as I worried about other men near her.

It was the reason I never had any problem if she spent time with him or accepted his parents' proposal.

After the meeting, King Ford had to leave for a while and said that he would come back two days later when they would leave for Lacuna. I was quite happy that he left. Though he was on our side right now, I still did not like his presence. Perhaps it was because he was just another man who talked to my wife comfortably and also I could not read his mind because he was a dark mage.

Though we did not talk about it, all of us were sure that we would not let him or anyone else know about Athena. No matter how many secrets he knew, we always needed to make sure that he did not know more than he needed to. Athena's case was very important to be kept a secret because of her power.

Even if her power did not exist, some people would still try to take advantage of her based on the belief that saints had special powers.

"She now has started to go to other rooms," Luc informed us as we were taking a walk in the garden because my wife wanted to move her legs a bit because she had been sitting all morning. "Ruby warned her not to go outside the tower or even go near the windows because anyone can see her if they pass by the tower. The duke and the duchess have been coming to play with her a lot too.

I think they have gotten pretty close."

"So, it is time to ask her?" Blue asked.

"Yes, I think you should ask her now."