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Chapter 297: The Will

Author: Judith GW
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Spencer's POV

“I found something!”

My mother’s voice cuts through the air moments before I can make a similar declaration of my own. I whirl around to look at the bookshelves. The acrid scent that was lingering on my father’s corpse seems to cling to the inside of my nose, and I wrinkle my face in distaste.

“What did you find?” I ask my mother, walking away from the corpse.

She’s holding up a thick black envelope sealed with the Lycan Royal Family’s crest. The envelope is unmarked, and looks as though it’s been freshly sealed. I don’t recognize this exact envelope, but I’ve seen letters like it before.

Whatever it is must be official documentation directly from the Lycan King and Queen themselves.

“This is your father’s will,” my mother replies solemnly. She looks down at the envelope with a heavy heart. “Now that he is deceased, it will be executed to the fullest possible potential.”

“Oh,” I say, unimpressed. “So it’s not, say, a clue as to who might have killed him?”

“It coul
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