Chapter 69
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As Corral walked back to where the horses had been kept, she wondered if she was imagining it all.
She kept praying to herself that this was nothing but a bad dream.
A nightmare she wanted to wake up from with the snap of her fingers.
But she couldn’t.
This was, in fact, reality.
It was like even in death, and her sister had come to haunt her.
After all these years? Why hadn’t she ever come back?
If she didn’t drown, then how come she somehow resurfaced?
They had searched everywhere for her body and couldn’t even find it.
She started to rake her hair and bite her fingernails.
This was bad.
This was really bad.
If her parents knew that the slave Jasmine was their granddaughter, then they wouldn’t just take her in, but they would do a thorough investigation of her sister and how she had managed to survive.
Corral wanted to run mad.
She kicked a pebble as she walked by.
She needed to know everything about that girl.
She was a threat to everything she had worked hard for.
She got to her horse and saw her aunt Cherry already walking up to her.
“I can’t believe this.” Corral said this in disbelief. “I can’t believe an ounce of this.”
“This is all your fault.” Aunt Cherry said. “I told you to do this carefully. I told you to make sure she was dead. If you are not sure, then inform me. But you assured me. Told me that you had seen her die.”
“I was six!” Corral complained. “I swear I did see her die. I saw her drown, and when no one found her body, I just figured that she had been eaten by some dangerous fish like everyone else had.”
“Well, that didn’t happen!” Cherry snapped. “Look, she went on to live her life and even had a child. A child that even scares Marie. Do you know what it means for that woman to be scared of someone?”
Corral couldn’t help it.
It technically wasn’t her fault.
She had done what she had been instructed to do and even made sure of it.
“We have to do something about her.” Aunt Cherry said.
“Mother has seen her.” Corral said. “And worse, she is Xaden’s pet. Do you even know what that means? Xaden doesn’t listen to anyone. Not even the King.”
“She is his enemy.” Aunt Cherry said. “Didn’t he bring her here to torture her? And suffer for what her father and family had done to him?”
“It’s different. From what I gathered, He protects her.” Corral said. “He doesn’t let them
Touch her. She is still a slave, but the others are prohibited from even coming near her.”
“But he hates her?” Cherry asked. “Doesn’t he?!”
“He does. Uhmm, er, well, idk. I’m not sure. It’s still confusing to me.” She said. “I’m confused myself. He hates her, yes. I heard he does. But at the same time, he has saved her countless times.”
Aunt Cherry walked towards her horse, deep in thought.
“Why don’t we just kill her?” Corral asked. “We could arrange it and have her killed. As bad as it gets, we could set the murder on another servant.”
“Really?” Cherry eyed her. “Another murder? So we get into much bigger trouble?”
Corral went hush.
Cherry rolled her eyes.
“I didn’t think so too.” She said to herself, Then she went on thinking.
“Fine.” Corral said. “I know I made a mistake. Like I said, I was a child. But I’m an adult now. If my parents find out what I did and what we did, Then it’s over for us. It’s the end.”
Corral sighed. “We could arrange a death.”
“You’re so stupid, you know that, don’t you?” Cherry said. “Haven’t you wondered what she is doing in the pack? Even though he didn’t completely take over.”
Corral’s mouth dropped.
She had thought of it, but didn’t put much mind to it.
“He bonded with her.” Aunt Cherry said. “It’s not going to be easy to kill her. And you know what that means.”
It meant that Xaden could sense her being in danger.
He could feel her in danger.
“How sure are you?” Corral asked, her heart racing. “Praying that it wasn’t true.”
“You’re much stupider than I thought you would be leaving the palace.” Cherry said. “Your parents really turned you into a dummy.”
Corral swallowed.
She was badly hurt that Aunt Cherry, whom she considered her mother, was belittling her so much.
“Look here.” Aunt Cherry said. “How else do you think he was able to bring her here? Xaden might be wild. But he is not stupid. He won’t break a law. The repercussions of it would be that he would be denied attacking the moonlight pack again. And God knows that’s what he wants most in this life.”
“Maybe when he finally kills Bale, he will break as many laws as he can. But not right now. Not when he is too close to what he wants. He had to have bonded with her to bring her here. And if we try to kill her, he will sense it.”
Corral was frustrated.
It was like every plan she came up with was an absolute disaster.
“So what do we do?” Corral asked pathetically.
“Since she is Scarlet’s daughter, then that means that she isn’t Luna Maria’s daughter.” Cherry said. Then she turned to face Corral. “There is more to this. More on all of this. Perhaps there is another child that Bale hid from Xaden. Because I know that Luna Maria gave birth to a girl and a boy for sure.”
“And that means that this Jasmine must have been sent here.” Corral said she was finally catching up to what she was being told.
She gasped. “An imposter!”
“If Xaden finds out, It would be betrayal all over again.” Aunt Cherry climbed on her horse. “And that young man has been through enough trauma.”
Aunt Cherry smiled. “He is going to get more traumatized. I mean, after all, I was the main reason why the royal family didn’t assist his parents.”