All Chapters of TRADED TO THE LYCAN KING: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

RaguelI spent the rest of the evening going through every document recovered from the eastern settlement, refusing to accept the order bearing my seal at face value. The command looked authentic, and the royal seal was genuine, but something about the wording bothered me. I had issued enough orders to recognize the way they were written, and this one contained instructions I would never have given.Emily stood across the desk while I compared the recovered document with copies of the orders I had sent out.“This seal is yours,” she said. “And the order was recorded as an official command.”“I know that, Em.”She watched me turn the document over again. “Then what are you looking for?”I pointed to the lower half of the page. “The seal was applied when the order was issued, but the wording was changed afterward.”His eyebrows pulled together. “Changed how?”“The original command was about increasing patrols around the eastern settlement. Someone altered the instructions and made it ap

LyraI stopped going to Raguel after that day.At first, I told myself it was because I needed time to think, but the truth was that I didn't trust myself to be around him yet. Every time I remembered the look on his face when I pulled my hand away, guilt settled heavily in my chest. I knew I had hurt him, but I was hurt too, and I didn't know how to separate the love I still felt for him from everything I had learned.Instead, I started spending more time with the wolves who had begun calling me their queen.They treated me differently now. Some bowed when I approached, while others smiled and moved aside to let me pass. A few had started addressing me as Queen Lyra, and even though I wasn't comfortable with it, I didn't correct them anymore. There was something strangely reassuring about being around them.One afternoon, I stood in the courtyard while several of the younger wolves discussed the attack on the eastern settlement. They had gathered near the stone pillars, speaking amon

RaguelI was walking out of the council chamber and down the hallway, reviewing the reports from the eastern settlement when I noticed that the guard who was outside Lyra’s corridor was missing. It was a small detail but I had become too accustomed to knowing where Lyra was and who was supposed to be watching her. Since the attack, I had been more alert than usual, and the absence of the guard immediately caught my attention.I handed the report to Emily and stopped in my tracks.“Where is Lyra?” I asked.Emily looked up. “I thought she was with Habeela.”“She can't be. I saw Habeela leaving with Zevran a few minutes ago.”She studied my expression for a moment before slowly setting the report down. “I'll get some guards to find out where she is.”I didn't wait for her.I hurried down the hallway and headed toward Lyra's rooms, my steps quickening as I moved through the corridor. I tried to convince myself that there was an explanation for her absence. Maybe she had gone into the gard

HabeelaI had been staring at the symbol for so long that the lines had started to blur together.It was printed at the bottom of one of the old records Zevran had brought back from his investigation, a small mark that was barely noticeable unless someone was specifically looking for it. I had seen it before, but I hadn't understood its importance until Zevran found the same mark on several unrelated documents.We were sitting together in his study, surrounded by old reports and records we had collected over the past few days. Papers covered most of the table, some neatly arranged into piles while others had been left open where we had stopped reading them.The room was quiet except for the occasional rustle of paper as I turned another page. Across from me, Zevran leaned over the table, comparing two documents side by side with the kind of concentration that made it clear he was already several steps ahead of me."Look at this," he said.I moved closer and looked down at the document

RaguelAfter Lyra left, I spent the next several hours following the financial trail instead of trying to explain it away.The records Lyra had found were already troubling enough, but the more I examined them, the clearer it became that they were connected to something much larger than a few secret investigations.Money had been moving through palace accounts without proper authorization, passing through departments that should never have been involved in matters concerning Lyra or her supporters. Some transactions had been disguised as ordinary expenses, while others had been buried beneath layers of administrative approvals.Someone had been using my palace resources without my permission.I stood over the documents in my study, comparing dates and names while Emily waited across from me.“Have you found anything else?” I asked.“Yes.” She placed another file on the desk. “These payments were approved through the council's administrative office, but the authorization codes belong t