Guardian Quarters
“Good morning.” Joshua says as he looks at his Squad and the soon-to-be former Guardians.
“Guardians, you swore to protect the Royal family from any kind of harm. I assume that each of you would like a chance to prove that, even if the worst injury you can get is a paper cut.” Joshua says, earning him a few chuckles.
He divides the men and women in front of him into three groups. The Guardian’s Captain gets appointed one, Jesper receives the second group and the last group is for Joshua himself.
“Each team will search a different part of the Palace, while the Royal family is in a meeting with the Elders. They will try to buy us as much time as they can, but I want you to understand that your time will be limited.
You will search your assigned location for anything that could expose the Elders as frauds. Take pictures of the places you find these files or documents,
Guardian Quarters“Good morning.” Joshua says as he looks at his Squad and the soon-to-be former Guardians.“Guardians, you swore to protect the Royal family from any kind of harm. I assume that each of you would like a chance to prove that, even if the worst injury you can get is a paper cut.” Joshua says, earning him a few chuckles.He divides the men and women in front of him into three groups. The Guardian’s Captain gets appointed one, Jesper receives the second group and the last group is for Joshua himself.“Each team will search a different part of the Palace, while the Royal family is in a meeting with the Elders. They will try to buy us as much time as they can, but I want you to understand that your time will be limited.You will search your assigned location for anything that could expose the Elders as frauds. Take pictures of the places you find these files or documents,
Dallas’ p.o.v.“Elders, let me make one thing abundantly clear. Your Queen can handle dealing with her family and the household of the Royal wing. No one outside the Royal family will ever get to interfere with our household ever again. This is and will forever be up to the Royal family.” Quinlan speaks, barely containing his anger.My Mates are keeping an eye on the Elders and their reaction to Quinlan’s statement, my eyes are glued to Elder Dawn’s Father. I don’t trust him and I will ensure that he never sets foot in the Palace again for official business.“Prince Quinlan, at the moment, your Father is still our King. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is, we only have to listen to your Father.” Elder Dawn responds.Uncle Vaughn jumps out of his seat and Elder Dawn is lucky that my Mates reacted quickly or Ershin would have ripped her a new asshole.“I bel
Dallas' p.o.v.After one more look at Elder Dawn, I sit down at the breakfast table and start talking to Grandpa about our weekend.I can feel her eyes burning into my back, but I ignore it for now. I want to enjoy my breakfast and a little quiet time before we meet with the Elders.Daxton and Darius will communicate to me through our mind-link what I need to know during the meeting and even Uncle Vaughn will inform me if there is something I need to do.I am surprised when Elder Jensen escorts us to the Throne room, but the moment we step inside, it becomes clear why we aren't having this meeting in the King's Chamber.“Every family member of every Elder is present. Not everyone is content with Mom taking over former Elder Jeff's duties.” Quinlan explains through the mind-link. “They will try to overwhelm you and hope to get you so distracted that you won't back up Dad.”
West WingAs you can imagine, not all Elders were happy with Jeff losing his title or with Queen Eliza taking over his responsibilities.Elder Dawn reached out to her family within minutes after the Royal family walked out of the Chamber. She was furious at the disrespect the Queen showed her family by denying her younger Brother to take over Jeff’s duties.Her Father called a meeting with the Elders, who thought similarly to their family and didn’t want the Royals to have too much power.None of them knew who was responsible for the Royal family to hand over more power to the Elders or why, but they had no intention of handing it back.“How many Elders will back up the Royals if they decide to leave Queen Eliza in charge of the Servants?” Her Father had asked and Elder Dawn couldn’t give him more names than the ones in the room with them.“Princess Dallas will be our biggest
Dallas’ p.o.v.Joshua joins me and Aunt Eliza in the kitchen. I need to inform him about their task for Monday and hopefully, we can keep the Elders occupied for a long time.“I need you to split the Squad into two teams. No, make that three teams. One team to search the library here in the private wing, one to search the library downstairs and one to search the Elder wing.” I tell him as I look at the contents of the fridge.There is more than enough food in here and Aunt Eliza is pulling items from the pantry to increase the availability of food for cooking or baking.“They need to find anything that mentions the duties of the Elders, the power they hold within the Kingdom or how the Elders became a part of our Kingdom. Anything that mentions the Elders will do and they need to be ready to act on Monday morning.” I explain.“On it. Just let me know when the meeting is over.”
Chapter 83Quinlan’s p.o.v.Have they lost their fucking minds?First, they forget that Dezra was stripped of her titles, then they forget that Dallas is a part of the Royal family and complete their disrespect for Dallas by acting as if she wouldn’t be able to take on the position.If I didn’t despise them already, the Elders would have pulled it off with their behavior today.Dallas is correct, the Elders who were in agreement with Elder Dawn will cause most of our future problems. I just hope that we can tackle any problems before they become significant issues.“Nicely done, Aunt Eliza. Charna was close to ripping her a new one.” I hear Dallas say as they walk back into Dad’s office.“Dallas, we need to figure out what happened all those years ago. I will not allow an Elder to disrespect us or this Kingdom; we need to find out what they can and