When Markus returned to the castle, he already had a plan formed in his mind. He reined in his dominant instinct to go directly to his mother and lash out, knowing that would get him nowhere.
He was not King for nothing; he had enough experience from almost a century of life to know when something was being orchestrated under his nose. His fault from the last period was that he was being too focused on Kaia to pay attention to what was happening around him. But no worries, he would defeat them at their own game.
Once inside, he made his way to his bedroom to take a shower, wash the dirt and clear his head. In the meantime, he mind linked his Beta, Atlas. “Atlas, I need you to find out the details of the Royal Courtship and what my mother and her minions have arranged. Also, how did Kaia
