
I highly doubt the alpha woman is behind the kidnapping, and she said all that for a personal reason. Maybe she's upset bc the ML keeps getting off work early, them working more since he's looking for that guy, something like that.
But besides her being involved or not, she didn't need to say that to my boy ( :゚皿゚)

We all know why this story is a good damn read, so I'm not gonna ramble. One aspect that stood out to me though is how the author made the background characters have some type of role, and the author didn't forget that. They even utilized that by keeping majority of them alive, and it fully correlated with the reasoning in the story.
Excuse my slowness y'all, but why tf does the Duke or who ever want the mother to be around the prince when she keeps basically trying to kill him?
I think they want to control him and eventually kill him.
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It‘s basically to manipulate the prince and strengthen his trauma.
Thank you both for responding and that makes sense! It explains why the king, I think that's what he is (who ever was the guy surrounded by all those men or women), wanted a specific regna too.
It's all by design.