The Villain's Wife (Book 2)

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When Jennie and Lisa arrived in the Palace, they were immediately welcomed by the Duke and Duchess. However, instead of asking questions, the two asked Lisa and Jennie to follow them into the underground area of the palace.

When Jennie entered the underground facility of the palace, she let out a surprised gasp. She eyed the white walls, bright lights, and tiled from, clear surprise written on her face.

"What? Did you expect a dark dungeon with dying people?" the Duchess laughed when she Jennie act that way. However, this glee didn't last too long. Her smile soon turned sour as she thought of Jennie's request for a secret medical facility. While the Duke and Duchess immediately complied without asking questions, they still could not help but feel nervous about this request.

Was Jennie planning to kidnap someone? Was she planning on doing something dangerous? Questions piled up in the Duchess' brain as she looked at Lisa and Jennie's calm appearance as they started walking inside the secret underground facility that only royals had access to.

"This is a complete underground facility for the Royals." The Duke explained while giving Jennie a wry smile. She was Royalty, and yet she says she's not and now... she is requesting something that only Royal's had accessed. Honestly, this is starting to confuse the Duke...

Jennie pursed her lips in response. She eyed the beds next to the machines that can only be seen in the hospitals. Along with the smell of disinfectants, this space really looked like a hospital. "This is just a precaution." She said. "Is this place secured?"

The Duke nodded. "I have... I already made sure that everyone here can be trusted." He made sure to send the traitors that Lisa told him about out of the palace before they arrived. "Do you need to tell me something?"

Jennie and Lisa looked at each other before Jennie nodded. Almost immediately Lisa started speaking, "We have a reason to believe that someone is after Madam Luo's life. We don't know who they are. But after Jennie talked to the older woman earlier, she noticed that there was something wrong. We already sent our people to Madam Luo's house. But we discovered that she was not in the house. So... we took his grandson instead. He will be coming to the palace in a couple of minutes. As for Madam Luo— we can't locate her yet."

Horror flashed in the Duchess' eyes. She staggered, face paled. 'Grandma Luo? Are you sure? Then... we should call the— "

"Calm down." The Duke immediately patted his wife's back. "Calm down. Don't panic." The Duke knew that Lisa and Jennie were holding some information from him. But the words that he just heard just now are better than nothing. Especially from the man that already promised to help him deal with the people who are planning to revolt.

"This is the safest place in the country. So we chose to bring them here. I hope you don't mind."

The Duke immediately shook his head. Of course, he understood why they chose this place as not many people would have the courage to attack a highly secured facility like this. After all, not many would want to deal with a country's whole military force. "Do you want me to ask my men to— "

"No." Lisa shook his head. "Our people could handle it." Both men stopped talking when Jennie asked the Duchess to sit down. The two women then walked towards one of the beds and took a seat, with Jennie comforting the Duchess. "Does she know?" Lisa asked.

"I was trying to tell her earlier when you called me." The Duke's expression turned grave. "Grandma Luo... This scheme.... Does this have anything to do with the Activists?" It was known that the older woman is loved in Luxembourg.

She was well known and most people would always invite her in gatherings and would even send her flowers every day. In return, the older woman would send her pastries to her neighbors and some other nobles who loved her.