She was rudely woken up by other additional members sprawling all over the bed as if they were the actual owner when the real owner was sleeping like a log until morning. She woke up when the sky was still dark. It was similar to her family members. Surprisingly, Albert was also here, inside her room, uninvitedly, sleeping in the corner of the room with one pillow under his head and a thick blanket draped over his body. “What is going on?” She asked breathlessly. “Sleeping camp, they said.” Ibrahim pushed Aidan’s hand that wrapped around his thigh gently. “Good morning, princess.” He planted a smooch on her head. “Morning, daddy, mommy.” She wrapped her arms around Aulia, still half asleep. “Want to sleep a little more?” Aulia asked in a soothing voice. Shadow shook her head. “Bathroom,” placed her head on Aulia’s shoulder. “Where will you go after this? Do you have work that we shall not know about?” Ibrahim asked carefully while being careful around her room. He handpicke
After throwing a fit for the whole hour, they sat at the available chair right in front of Shadow’s office desk. The office was somehow lacking in his eyes. It wasn't as massive as the previous one.Shadow understood that gaze.Listen, the room that she was currently sitting in wasn't actually her own room. According to Priscilla, they managed to secure a few extra golds from everyone around. Furthermore, their business was thriving hard, thus, the reconstruction of Shadow’s office was inevitable.Shadow was a generous lord. All subjects under her were given a bonus whenever they had a spike in sales. Occasionally, she would even fetch her own pocket money to give them the best treatment if they had to make any trips everywhere for business.Thus, this office expansion was inevitable. She didn’t discredit their subordinates, didn’t even try to oppress them, and was so kind to them.Stern yet kind.Strict yet friendly.Ajiad looked around and knitted his eyebrows together while pressi
Their chasing game halted almost after the news of the arrival of Grand Duke Raja Yusuff Ruwayfi and his family was relayed by the butler that was searching for them.At one point, she was already half surrendering and almost getting caught by her uncle. Fortunately, the news broke right before that massive hand grabbed the collar of her neck.“To where?” She gasped in shock.Like, she was really shocked.Now, for some reason, all of her family members were standing in front of her office entrance, putting question marks all around her head.“Why??”She asked them right the moment she arrived next to her father and her uncle towed behind her. The answer has never arrived as that family arrived in their lion's form while their knights were pulling the luggage carriage.And yet, another question rose.Why did they not use their human-given technology in the first place? Spatial bag. The capacity of the bag was depending on the price. Her uncle, however, had more than enough money to buy
When they arrived inside the office, Yusoff flickered his fingers at the servants available.“Hand out the gift pouches that have been prepared.” He said.“As you wish, My Lord.” The servants followed suit.Shadow’s employees were doing their work quietly, without worrying about the whole royal family crashing their workplace, acting so professional, to Shadow's annoyance. She wanted them to complain to her so that she could use them to send them away – possibly far away from her estate.The royal family occasionally visited Shadow’s workplace to surprise and annoy Shadow.But, their visit this time had another different meaning. It was full of purpose.Watching them all of them were so comfortable sprawling around the sudden massive room that had so many sofas – thanks to Albert’s magic – Shadow seethed in anger.“Oh wow, what is this?”“This looks luxurious…”“I love this silk fabric.”A few voices from everywhere made a few light comments with their pleased expressions.Shadow’s li
“I don’t care.” Shadow turned her eyes to Yusoff. “But–”Shadow shook her hand. “Dada, call that loser and work out the arrangement. Make it happen, Your Grace.” Her tone was making it for Yusoff impossible to say no.Like it or not, Yusoff had to stand down for this one.“I understand, Your Holiness.” He said humbly and shot up, followed by the rest of his sons except Ya’acub. With a smile and a small bow, they walked away with new determination in their eyes.“What is going on?” But, the unrelated people couldn’t understand anything that was going on even though they listened to the full discussion.“Before that, mothers, you may leave this boring discussion.” Shadow pointed her chin at Aulia and Aminah.“Is this one of your secret meetings?” Dhia asked, curious.“You are free to go. Oh, on second thought, I beg you to stay.” Shadow changed her narratives when Ya’acub gave a glance her way.“If you say so. I’ll stay.” Dhia tried to stop her smirk, though failed miserably. “For mo
“Alright…” Ibrahim tried to put those pieces together.“T-Vir is the corrupt souls banded together and pledged to kill all the obstacles to be number one in The Unknown.” Shadow declared and soon realized something.Soon, she backtracked when all eyes were strongly on her, full of conviction, and ready to consume all of her words. Whether it was right or wrong. “Of course, it’s a mere assumption. You can take it as a grain of salt in my flawed argument.”Ibrahim and Ajiad did their best to connect the dots. T-Vir wanted to be the best. By eliminating the obstacles, their dreams wouldn’t be far-fetched. Currently, the lion tribe and the wingsman clan are the top two. They had no beef with the lion tribe, but the lion tribe was their biggest obstacle ever.The lion tribe had never ceased to maintain their rank.But Shadow didn’t know much. This was only her assumption.“Ya’acub.” “Yes, Your Holiness.”“Keep digging.” “I will heed your command.” “Tenth!” Shadow called suddenly.Zzup
The discussion between them and Malikul started all over again, of course, omitting her various businesses to put Malikul’s mind at ease. By doing so, they created holes in their story-telling and Malikul's face seemed like he had just eaten a plate full of shit because he wasn’t having it.“No secret, remember, Your Highness?”He used a harsh intonation even in front of the king from another kingdom to make his point valid.“I want in. I want to join this journey with you, but I won’t if you keep me in the dark about a certain thing.”“We can’t. Not until we are sure that you’re capable of handling a few tasks.” Ibrahim tried to be reasonable.“Tasks? Of course, we will distribute our tasks. I am not someone who cock-riding everyone and steals your credits. What are we? College kids?” Oooffff, Shadow’s lower body twitched and her toes curled. Right now, Malikul is so sexy with his seethed face, tight jaw, and frown that marred his forehead. She could eat this man up here, and now.H
“Yes.” He answered with difficulty.He shut his eyes, feeling the tension that bit his whole body. Her cold gaze had eaten his inside. He felt awful.“Why?”“Our knights and your father’s knights were assassinated two weeks ago,” Malikul revealed the names that Shadow – unfortunately – knew too well.Malikul watched Shadow’s face grow passive. He hated it when she did that, putting on a mask to hide her real emotions. “It was a blatant war declaration from them.”“Let me guess… the wolves are involved?”“Unfortunately.”“They are all familiar faces too?”Malikul reluctantly nodded his head.“Fucking shit.” Shadow slammed her fist on the table.Bom!The table was inevitably destroyed even though she didn't use all of her strength. If all of them knew about them, there’s a chance that those wolves were Albert’s relatives. Probably his distant uncles or royal associates who hunted Albert for fun. To put it into another perspective, Albert was acquainted with them, directly or indirec