Lucien couldn't believe everything he was hearing.
After conducting a discreet investigation of his own, he discovered that the rumor had spread throughout the entire palace like wildfire. What frustrated him the most was that no one seemed to know where it had originated. Every lead ended in another dead end, and every person questioned pointed to someone else.
The longer the issue dragged on, the angrier he became.
As the King's Beta, it was his duty to keep order within the palace walls. Yet a scandal involving the king and Lady Arabella had not only circulated among servants and maids but had somehow made its way beyond the palace grounds.
Lucien could not go to the king with incomplete information. He needed facts. He needed the culprit.
So he did the unthinkable.
He summoned everyone.
Every maid assigned to the noble ladies, ordinary maids, servants, guards stationed within the palace, kitchen staff, breeders, and lastly, the Head Maid herself.
