The 5-Time Rejected Gamma And The Lycan King Chapter 80

“We couldn’t be more grateful for all of you to take us in, your Highnesses and your Graces.” Brigetta said after she finished explaining.

Lucianne’s hand subconsciously went to stroke Russell’s soft hair as the little boy chewed on his food. But her mind was somewhere else. She didn’t want to say anything at the dining table to scare the families they vowed to protect. So she simply continued eating the food on her plate.

‘Baby, what’s wrong?’ Xandar asked in concern through their mind-link. His features carried worry as he looked at her.

She linked back, ‘I’m worried that we may be dealing with someone we don’t know yet, someone who isn’t on Ellia’s list of five names. Someone on the outside.’

‘What makes you say that?’

‘Tanner was trying everything to make sure that her cover wasn’t blown. But now that the very three employees she blackmailed are here, with no threats, it just seems rather suspicious.’

‘Babe, I’m not following.’

‘Tanner strikes me as someone very resourceful. With the amount of money she had siphoned over the years, I doubt that it would be hard to find a good enough tracker to pick up the scent of these families and trace them here to Christian’s house. The fact that there had been no threats at all worries me. She could’ve easily sent a threat by normal mail but there hasn’t been anything so far. It’s like Tanner is subordinate to someone, and that person has not given the order to make a move.’

‘Maybe this person is Cummings, Whitlaw…’

‘No, I don’t think it’s them. Those two would have sent an anonymous threat to me personally for blurting more than they wanted me to if they were in charge. It wouldn’t be Marie Martin either. She sat there without siphoning anything during King Lucas’s reign for years. Someone after that must’ve persuaded her to do what she’s doing. And Patrick Dupont…if I’m completely honest with you, darling, Dupont looks more like a swayable puppet than a Deputy Finance Minister.’

Xandar then sighed and took her hand into his, placing it on his lap before he linked, ‘They’re all going to wish they were dead. If there is someone else, we’ll choke it out of them.’

Her thumb started stroking his as she linked, ‘We might have to do this very carefully, Xandar. And we have to be open with the fact that Ellia and the others don’t know who else exists in this fund-mishandling. If there is someone else giving the order, he…or she has to be found and arrested before these families can be safe. And we can’t touch the five people we know until we know who the last person is. If we alert even one of the five, the last one would disappear before we’re able to dig anything up.’

Xandar kissed her hand, his expression was still serious as he linked, ‘We’ll do this properly and carefully to keep them safe. And we’ll do it together, okay?’

‘Okay.’ She nodded meekly and forced a smile as she finished up her food.

“Aunt Lucy, are you okay?” Russell’s worried voice rang around the dining room and all eyes fell on Lucianne.

Lucianne dropped her worried face immediately, and replaced it with a cheerful and assuring expression, “Of course, Russell. You’re so sweet to ask.”

“I care about Aunt Lucy.” He said matter-of-factly, and Lucianne pecked a kiss on his cheek. The other adults in the room enjoyed the sweet exchange as Christian studied his jealous cousin in amusement.

Ellia and her assistants sorted out the audits in Christian’s study, explaining to them how it was arranged. And they started going through the stacks together. Russell somehow managed to convince his mother and Lucianne that he’ll be a good, quiet little boy doing his homework at a small corner table in the study while the adults around him worked. Xandar didn’t mind since he was far away enough from Lucianne.

Since Ellia, Brigetta and Oliver were blackmailed into fabricating the audits without question, they never dared to scrutinize how the funds in the five people’s accounts were connected to each other. They were just told to change the figures so that the amounts resembled those of other government officials. In essence, the analysis on the real audits had to now start from scratch. After comparing the audits, they found a pattern in the incoming and outgoing transactions of the five people in Ellia’s list.

Every month for the past eighteen years, large sums of money would be deposited into the five people’s bank accounts. But the money did not come from a government account. The money that was channeled into the five people’s accounts came from twenty different bank accounts. So it would seem that the government funds were first deposited into the twenty different bank accounts, then transferred to the five people on the list.

What was odd was this: on a rotation basis, four of the five people in the list would transfer twenty percent of the siphoned sums to a company. The fifth person would transfer forty percent to the same company. Each person on the list would take turns being this fifth person to transfer forty percent every month.