Reborn To Reject My Regretful Mate For The King Chapter 25
Gavin’s legs had not healed, and he had very few people he could trust.
If someone had to sit on the throne and issue commands in his name, I was a better choice than Rhys.
Rhys was Commander of the Royal Guard. He already controlled the military. If he also held royal authority, the loyalist packs would suspect a new military coup was underway.
I, on the other hand, was just an ordinary healer’s assistant from Greymoor Pack.
I had no army, no territory, and no ties to the Council.
Everyone believed my power came solely from Gavin.
On the day of the authorization ceremony, not a single member of the Royal Council objected.
They all knew I was merely the regent in the foreground.
The one who truly controlled the Royal Guard, the allegiance of the packs, and the royal bloodline was King Gavin.
Evelyn was later transferred to the same detention center where Julian was being held.
They were placed in neighboring, monitored wings.
Perhaps fate was never a single, unchangeable road.
In both lives, Evelyn had been given a chance at a safe life.
But both times, she chose to trade the lives of others for her own advantage, and in the end, she walked toward the same fate.
Gavin never trusted Adrian’s prophetic dreams.
He never believed fate could make a person’s choices for them.
Over the next three years, he taught me how to read the resource reports from the various packs, how to judge the Council’s true positions, how to manage border disputes, and how to recognize the ambition hidden behind oaths of loyalty.
At first, every command still had to pass through him.
Later, he handed over deployment authority for the Royal Guard, control of the Council agendas, and finally, decision-making power over the Crown Pack—one by one.
On the day I was finally capable of ruling the kingdom on my own, I went to see Julian.
He was no longer the proud, spirited Guard captain he had once been.
One of his legs would never fully recover, and long-term detention had stripped the arrogance from his eyes.