The New King 9

"We received some news, the celebration is still going to happen." One of the de Cene family subordinates said. "There was no mention of Miss Woods but no one had seen her either."

"Should we just think that she died!?"

"Perhaps we need to send more spies to— "

"We can't do that," Patriarch de Cene uttered. He looked at the elder of the de Cene family from near the fireplace where he had been standing since earlier. He had been staring at the fire for a few hours now. Something about it calm his raging nerves. Matthew should have lost his mind after that attack.

But not only did he not react, he just acted as if everything is normal. What is going on here?

Was he pretending? Was he trying to secretly investigate the matter? No matter how much he analyzed everything, he couldn't seem to figure out the new King.