The Alpha's Unwanted Bride

Chapter 413: WE ARE ALL GOING DOWN

Cherry’s heels echoed loudly against the floor as she stormed down the corridor, rage building in her chest like wildfire.

The nerve.

The sheer audacity of Rose. Dismissing her like some lowly servant?

She was her sister.

She was her elder sister!

She was the one who was supposed to be the Queen.

She was the one who had kept the kingdom functioning in her absence. And now? She was being tossed aside in favor of a slave girl with a bleeding heart and too much mouth.

This was the least of her problems moreover.

What she truly needed now was to find out what exactly Rose knew and how.

Rose who had never accepted her daughter’s death now all of sudden believed it?

Something was off.

Someone knew something and that someone had told Rose.

She suspected the same person was the one who had told Rose about Bernice in the first place.

Because how had she conveniently know that Bernice had been poisoned.

Good goddess!

That means someone might also know she was the one who had done everything.

Once Cherry got into her room, she found Coral seated reading a book.

”We’re in trouble!” Cherry said.

”What’s wrong?” Coral asked having her aunt’s attention.

”Your mother knows something.” Cherry said biting her bottom lip and pacing the room. ”She fired me because of the murders.”

”She fired you?” Coral asked in disbelief.

”Yes. But that’s bedsides the point.” Cherry hissed. ”Your mother somehow knows that Scarlett is dead.”

Coral rose a brow in confusion. ”Isn’t that a good thing?”

”No.” Cherry snapped in horror.

”It isn’t?” Coral asked still very confused.

”Of course not!” Cherry said. ”I mean it is. But in this situation it isn’t.”

Cherry massaged her forehead.

”Your mother has never accepted Scarlett’s death. Not even when she promised you that she was over it. She never ever did. She always believed the fact that she was somewhere alive. But what she said to me today.”

Cherry shook her head. ”She said Scarlett is dead. She told me Scarlett is dead. And her eyes, her eyes said she knew Scarlett is dead.”

Cherry stopped pacing and set her hand to firmly hold the bed post.

”It’s only you, Belle and I that know Scarlett is dead. And Marie too but that’s about it.” Cherry stated. ”No one else.”

”I didn’t tell her if that’s what you’re thinking.” Coral said.

Cherry didn’t think it was her either.

Neither did she think it was Belle.

Belle was too selfish to let anything come in between her path to the throne.

And she knew that Marie had no business telling the Queen so who could it be.

”She knows more than she is letting on.” Cherry said.

”Why don’t you just ask her?” Coral asked.

”Did you even hear me?!” Cherry snapped, irritated at the question. ”She fired me! Your mother doesn’t trust me anymore and so she won’t tell me anything ever again.”

Coral went hush.

”What about me?” Coral offered after a short silence. ”What if I ask her?”

Cherry rolled her eyes and laughed.

She laughed so hard tears came out of her eyes.

Then she saw Coral was not laughing.

”You aren’t joking?” Cherry asked.

”She is my mother.” Coral pointed out.

Cherry rolled her eyes at Coral’s stupidity. ”The mother who abandoned you. Your mother doesn’t like you, moreover what makes you think that if she can’t tell me something, it’s you she is going to tell?”

Coral went hush.

”Sometimes you need to be real.” Cherry said irritated. ”Belle too is useless because she has a big mouth. Your mother won’t tell her anything. We’ll have to find out on our own.”

Cherry tore through her drawers, yanking out parchment, vials, and old charms.

She needed a new plan. Now. She couldn’t rely on her connections anymore, not when half of them were probably compromised.

There was only one solution.

”What did you say happened that mother fired you from your duties?” Coral asked as Cherry searched through her things.

”It’s not relevant.” Cherry said with a passive wave of her hand.

”You need to tell me.” Coral pushed. ”We’re in this together. You can’t just put me in the dark.”

When Cherry still didn’t answer her, Coral hissed in a very low voice behind her.

”I even killed my own sister for you.”

That caught Cherry’s attention.

”You owe me transparency.” Coral said.

Cherry sighed and then turned around to face her niece.

”You really want to hear why she fired me?” Cherry asked.

”Yes I do.” Coral nodded.

Cherry gave a tight smile. ”Fine. She fired me because she says it’s my fault for letting the entire wolf system go corrupt.”

”Well? Was it your fault?” Coral asked.

”Of course it is.” Cherry said irritated. ”And you know what else? She doesn’t know who to blame but I’m the one who sent

Bernice. I’m the one who has been poisoning your mother for decades now.”

Coral’s face fell.

”Why do you look surprised?” Cherry asked turning back to search through 3 things.

”That family. Those children. Was it your fault?” Coral stuttered the blood draining from her voice.

”Of course it was me. Why are you acting surprised?” Cherry asked. ”Everything I have done was for your own good”

”But they were just babies.” Coral said her face white.

”Might I remind you, that you killed a young girl too.” Cherry pointed out. ”She was just a baby too.”

Coral’s face went even whiter.

”I have been poisoning your mother because she needs to go.” Cherry said. ”What’s the end game here? It’s you eventually sitting on the throne. You becoming the Queen Luna that you have always wanted to be. Everything I did was for you and you know it.”

Coral remained silent.

Cherry stopped what she was doing and faced Coral herself.

”Do you want me to remind you of all the things your mother did to you?” Cherry asked her. ”How she abandoned you as a child? How even after your sister was gone she still preferred her over you? After everything I did for you. Even the things I know you don’t like to remember.”

Coral turned her face away.

Cherry smiled wickedly to herself.

She had her well trapped.

”I thought so too.” Cherry said. ”Now if you know what’s good for you, you help me as I try to find out what your mother knows because if she finds anything. The tiniest loophole, we are all going down.”