Chapter 31
Lucianne took a deep breath before she began spilling the beans. “So you both already know the number of rogue attacks last year was, by far, the worst. And applications for relief following those attacks were undoubtedly a lot as well. But less than 10% of the submitted applications ever made it past the phase of being reviewed. And out of our own 132 allies who were attacked last year, we found that only twenty of them got their relief applications approved. But only four out of those had the funds disbursed to their pack. The rest still have‘ funds disbursement pending’ on their status. Here comes the part that really hurts.”
She took another deep breath, and said, “We call the relief a gamble, like a Wheel of Fortune. And getting funds is like hitting the jackpot. So, packs who have successfully received funds are obliged to throw a pack party, just among their own pack members, to celebrate their good luck. And they have to send pictures as proof of the celebration. (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)There was this one party that even had their own Wheel of Fortune booth for pack members to play with and claim all sorts of second-hand belongings as prizes. That was probably the most…creative pack party thrown last year.”
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The two cousins had a mixture of hurt and anger. Lucianne then added sheepishly, “I’m sorry I laughed. You both work really hard. I’m sure it was just a glitch in the system or something.”
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“Oh, it was a glitch alright.” Christian’s voice was never so menacing until now as he looked a ta table further down the hall, where most of the ministers sat. Lucianne turned but she was not sure where his sights were set on so she turned back to them and uttered, “Again, I’m sorry. I should’ve…”
“Sweetheart, don’t apologize.” Xandar’s face was still serious when he took her hand and kissed it before placing it on his lap as he stroked it lovingly.
Very cautiously, Lucianne said, “If it makes either of you feel any better, you both have practically been approving relief applications these past few days when you spoke to pack members, so the process has sped up for many of them. It’s just the issue of disbursement now.”
another moment of awkward silence, she asked, “So, is there anything else you would like to know? I’ll be more considerate and empathetic when
her. She thinks she offended us. You didn’t, by the way, my Queen.” Lucianne
now held her hand in both of his to kiss it and began explaining,
she exclaimed, “Oh, it
It has always been free. At
saw the options, and passed her phone to Xandar, (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)“Here, in fine print, next to the option for Lycan warriors. ‘Charges are within the full discretion of the Ministry, to be confirmed after provision of aid’. It’s small but it’s in red so none of us
was leaning in to see the words on the enlarged screen and, like he was being possessed, took the phone from Xandar’s hand without a word and started scrolling through the entire document with
know. That’s why you asked.” She then nodded to herself as she processed this information and continued, “So the pack
he continued, “I’m going to get the financial details of all the ministers by tomorrow night, and call for a meeting the day after. It’s time to find out who’s behind it. Someone has been siphoning large sums of money. If they were confident that they weren’t going to get caught because of how distant our species were, then I would say that tracing the money wouldn’t be too
“Then, you might want to speed
Queen?” Christian came out from his daze but still held her phone in
and said, “Well, I blurted it at training today. Maybe Whitlaw and Cummings ran away not because they were afraid of my lecture but because they didn’t want me
cousin and said, “She’s right. We’re both going