Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Fourteen: The Wilder Front
The Castellan trustees' challenge had a second target that Arthur identified the morning after the filing: a parallel motion attached to a different court, addressing Kane's bloodline claim specifically.
It was narrower and technically weaker than the sealed adoption argument but it had more personal weight — an assertion that Kane's Kingsley bloodline connection, now publicly documented since the Book 1 genetic revelations, constituted a conflict of interest in the sovereign claim proceeding because a co-sovereign's interests were materially aligned with the sovereign's claim and therefore his presence in the meeting room represented undisclosed interested party participation.
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