Conquering His Cold Heart

388 Convincing the Lord

Regulus finally stopped stepping on Lorenzo’s chest and went to sit down on his armchair.

The guard grabbed Lorenzo by his collar and made him kneel down in front of the Lord. And as if Lorenzo wasn’t already threatened enough by the Lord himself, the guard also bent down and gave a threat, “Do what Lord Regulus has asked of you or I will be fulfilling the Lord’s wish and dig up your grave right where you are.”

Regulus smirked and mockingly said, “Don’t threaten the poor man too much. He might wet his pant before he says a word.”

The guard laughed at the joke and went back to standing in front of the closed door.

When the room fell silent, Lorenzo finally began to mumble, “Milord, first of all, I would like to clarify that I have always been on the late alpha’s side and now, I am naturally on your side. Not on the King’s side. I have never been on the King’s side. He is from a different clan. I wouldn’t be able to be on his side even if I wanted to.”

Regulus rested both of his arms on the armrest and clenched his jaw. He didn’t have anything to counter that argument of Lorenzo since it was a well-known fact that all the members of the clan were innately loyal to their alpha.

Lorenzo slowly raised his head to look at Regulus. His chest and his back were still hurting from getting slammed on the ground like some coconut. So, he spoke while suppressing his pain, “And secondly, I am trying to protect you, Milord. Not that woman. Not the King. You.”

“By not being truthful with me?” Regulus folded his arms and raised his brows. The death glare that he was giving to Lorenzo was telling that the fury inside of him was ready to boil out at any moment.

Lorenzo had to choose his words very wisely. He knew that right now, denying anything was going to cost his life. So, he was going to weave his words in such a way that Regulus would be bound to believe he meant no harm.

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“I agree that I tried to conceal the truth even when I was aware of Ruby and her relationship with the King. But, I had to confirm a few things before I let you in on the whole truth.”

“What kind of things?” Regulus asked.

Lorenzo slightly bowed his head and said, “If the time I spent with the King has taught me anything about him then it is the fact that he is just a sheltered young man who didn’t even know about any of the werewolf business until he turned into one first. He is just a na?ve young man who can be easily manipulated by the likes of me.”

Regulus clenched his fist and howled, “Just get to the point already!”

Lorenzo looked at the angry face of Lorenzo and spoke as calmly as he could. “I personally don’t believe that such a man is capable of murdering five men in cold blood. There is no reason to because he doesn’t have any deep-rooted hatred toward our late alpha. There is no enmity between the clan, neither is there any years-old grudge.”

Regulus scoffed at how Lorenzo was openly taking the King’s side. “And when you are blabbering such things right to my face, am I to believe that you aren’t biased toward the King?”

“You could say that I am biased towards him.” Lorenzo didn’t deny it, rather he embraced it. “But, the truth is that I do trust the close observation that I carried out. He is someone who speaks his mind out, someone who cannot hide anything in his heart – a pretty straightforward person for a King. I can…”

Lorenzo paused for a second in hesitation. But he breathed in and said what he was going to say. “And although I haven’t found out where the King was when the murder took place, I can still vouch on his behalf for the time being.”

“My brother basically kidnapped the only wolf who was directly sired by the King!” Regulus slammed his fist on the armrest of the chair and broke it in half.

He clenched his teeth in anger and shouted at Lorenzo thinking he was the one who was na?ve. “How can you be so sure that the King didn’t murder my brother? I am now almost sure that it was the King who was behind all the murders. He killed them all because that woman was taken away from him.”

Regulus grabbed the broken piece of the armrest and shot it right on Lorenzo’s head. And he screamed again, “Now tell me I am wrong!”

Lorenzo’s heart began trembling greatly when the nail stuck at the end of that shard of wood got pinned onto his head. A hot stream of blood started to trickle down his forehead and down to his eyes.

Even then, Lorenzo managed to control his voice from trembling or breaking down. He calmly looked into those glowing yellow eyes of Regulus and questioned him.

“Then why is that woman still here in your captivity? She was right there in the dungeon when the assassination happened, wasn’t she? If it was the King who murdered them all, why didn’t he take Ruby with him? I am sure he had a second to spare before the others broke the door down. Why didn’t he take Ruby with him if he killed them all because of her? Why leave her here to be kept hostage again?”

Regulus couldn’t say a word in reply. He simply frowned and was forced to give his theory another thought.

And to prove the King’s innocence further, Lorenzo added a few more facts he knew. “Besides, the King is still looking for Ruby. He doesn’t even know that she is here. And I didn’t tell him either. So, it couldn’t have been the King, Milord.”

Lorenzo dared to get up on his feet after openly declaring that the Lord was wrong about the King. He straightened the collar of his coat and said, “But still, for the peace of your mind, I am determined to find out the answer to the question that you originally tasked me with.”

He then bowed and said while fixating his gaze on the drops of blood that fell down on the floor, “Allow me to take my leave, Milord. I was planning to visit the King early in the morning so that I could chat for longer.”

Lorenzo didn’t straighten his back just yet. He was afraid that he would see the Lord jumping at him with the intention to kill.

However, luckily for him, he heard the guard opening the door.

“Thank you, Milord,” he said while still bowing. And he sprinted out of the room at the top of his speed.

Regulus, on the other hand, rested his head on the backrest of the chair and smiled ear to ear. And he mumbled in an eerie voice, “So, I had the greatest weakness of the King locked inside this mansion the whole time and I didn’t even know? My brother, he really thought ahead of time, didn’t he?”

He cackled as if he had just invented the greatest weapon against the enemy and then mumbled while glaring at the ceiling, “Thank you for the woman, brother. I will use her to the fullest.”