The Crown's Seduction-Chapter 373: Clues

Laura sighed as she sat alone in her office in the middle of the night. Nursing a drink in her hand, she couldn’t help but feel like she was getting softer these days with how she was currently feeling. Somehow, she felt disappointed that she was currently drinking by herself. That she was just casually doing nothing except wait for someone to come and accompany her somehow.

Of course, that certain someone was something that Laura didn’t like to admit. But it would be nice not to drink alone.

"This is kind of sad," she chuckled to herself as she took a sip of her drink. "What has the world come to..."

Indeed, things just weren’t adding up recently no matter how much she tried to look at things from a different perspective. Starting from the plague, all the way to King Nikolai’s supposed death, there were simply too many variables she had to keep track of. She had her own men and women out there conducting investigations for her, of course, but that was precisely the problem: she was practically working on her own instead of being supported by the higher ups.

And now, King Raul who had just recently been coronated as the new king was suddenly charged and proven with treason. It just didn’t make any sense whatsoever. Anybody in their right mind would immediately be able to tell that there was something wrong with all of the evidence against Raul just magically showing up without any valid source or methodology. And the way they all came to her without even so much as proper documentation beyond the bare minimum screamed that there was something more to what was happening. In fact, she would’ve personally handled that case herself if it weren’t for the queen stopping her from doing so.

"I don’t know why Her Majesty wanted me off the case, but then again..." she grumbled to herself before taking another sip of her drink. "Ugh... I hate that it still makes sense..."

Unfortunately, it truly did make sense for her to not be the one handling the case regarding Raul’s supposed treason. She was known to be close to Queen Mineah, which meant that anything she might do to try and clear his name, or even just doing her job, would immediately draw scrutiny from some of the more annoying court officials. She was also friends with the man’s wife, Niran, which only added to her supposed bias should she handle the said case. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

"Bias..." she clicked her tongue at the term. "I’m not that improper at my job..."

Indeed. Unless Queen Mineah herself told her to try and cheat the system, she would do her job as best as she could. It didn’t matter to her if her friends and family would somehow get into her sights. So long as she did things properly, then she was fine with whatever happened to them. It also helped that she was confident in her friends’ abilities to actually remain clean of evidence. In fact, if she ever saw herself handling a case of theirs, she’d probably laugh at them for being caught in the first place.

Laura chuckled at such a thought as she took another sip of her wine. Truly, if she was getting bored enough to think about hypotheticals, then she should probably just try and sleep just to get things over with. She still had a lot of work tomorrow, and it wouldn’t do for her to show up hungover.

She had already been told off by her assistant because she reeked of alcohol. It wouldn’t do for her to do that again. She really didn’t like this uneasy feeling though. Something was off and she was dying to find out what was it one way or another. She was used to conducting her own investigation so maybe she should look more into this.

Right, she should first go see Niran who also confused her. Knowing Niran who loved her husband so dearly, Laura expected the latter to beg her for help to clear Raul’s name but Niran didn’t see her at all. The confusing part of this all was that she refused to meet with anyone. It was like their residence was suddenly in lockdown barring anyone from outside to see them.

Shrugging to herself, Laura was about to stand up when a new presence suddenly entered her office. To her surprise, Fritz had actually shown up, complete with his own bottle of wine to drink. Looked like this one was someone not disappointing at all. He would always show up at the right time.

"I hope you’re not about to be done for the night," Fritz chuckled, having probably noticed her movements. "I just arrived, and it wouldn’t do for me to drink in your office alone."

"You know, I should probably do just that precisely because you showed up right before I was about to clean up," Laura scoffed even as she sat back down and poured herself another glass of wine. "But since you actually bothered, I might as well give you company for a few more drinks."

"And here I thought I had to goad you into staying," he smirked as he popped the cork off of his bottle and took a swig of it. "At least something decent happened today."

Rolling her eyes, Laura took a sip of her newly-filled glass before giving her guest a quick look. Unsurprisingly, even doing such a thing was becoming hard for her, seeing as she had been drinking for quite some time before he arrived.

"Oh? Did something bad happen on your end?"

"Nothing much. In fact, that’s precisely the problem," he complained out loud as he kept drinking. "We’re out there in the middle of nowhere looking for clues regarding this random coven, and yet we got nothing out of it except for wasted time and effort."

"That’s... pretty bad," Laura whistled before taking another sip. "What is up with that coven anyway?"

"It has something to do with everything that’s happening. Or at least, supposedly," Fritz shrugged. "Still, so long as we’re finding nothing, it’ll remain unknown whether or not it’s true."