CHAPTER 613: EXPOSED!

ANNA’S POV

I was lying on my bed, bored to death.

Finally, Jasmine was out of the house.

That filthy whore.

But now she lives in the royal pack.

I had no idea what deal Xaden had made to keep her there, but I really hoped that when Xaden finally married Princess Auburn, she would be far away.

The servants massaging my feet and trimming my toenails chipped my toenails.

"Ouch!" I hissed as I kicked her in the face.

The ugly peasant gasped and covered her face.

"I’m sorry, my lady." She apologized quickly.

I looked down at my toe and saw it was bleeding.

"How stupid of you!" I hissed cruelly.

I picked up my hand fan and gave her a dirt slap with it.

She turned her cheek to the other side.

I was breathing so heaving out of spite and anger.

I knew she had done it to me on purpose.

By the time she rose, her face and her nose were bleeding.

I took little satisfaction in that.

Blood for blood.

"Next time, be careful with that, or you will be punished with a terrific beating," I warned her.

She had tears in her eyes, which only made me more disgusted.

"Yes, your majesty." I rolled my eyes and lay back down on the bed.

The girl continued to work on my nails as I heard her sniff.

"You had better not be crying," I warned her. "Or I’ll give you something to cry about!"

She finally stopped sniffing.

I heard a knock at my door.

One of the servant girls went to open it.

It was Lisa.

"Anna," She nodded at me

I rolled my eyes in disgust.

What did she want?

I hadn’t seen her since I had returned.

"Anna, Anna, Anna." She said with a solidified smile. "It’s so good to see you."

I glared at her.

"You don’t have any right to call me by my name." I hissed.

"Oh, come on now, Anna." She said, as she sat on the chair beside my dressing mirror without permission, flipping her single blonde braid. "We’re already past that. You and I have too good a history to be referring to each other formally."

I could feel my face flushing up.

I knew what she was insinuating.

It was a vague warning.

"Leave!" I snapped at the servants.

They looked relieved.

They were gone in a matter of seconds.

As soon as I heard the door shut, I turned to Lisa.

"How dare you think you can talk to me that way?" I demanded, enraged.

She giggled and looked back at me before turning to face the mirror.

She started adjusting her eyebrows and patting powder on her face.

"You and I are too close for you to abandon me or for us to become enemies." She said.

Then she set aside the powder puff and turned to face me.

A smile was plastered on her face.

A smile that I knew didn’t mean well.

"Now, Anna." She began. "I don’t like the fact that you returned and you don’t send for me."

I folded my arms at her.

"Since when did I answer to you?" I hissed.

"Since we became allies." She pointed out. "You came back with no Jasmine, which is what we have always wanted. The sissy of a previous mate, whatever her name was.... Ahhhh... Lily. Is gone. Poof!"

She laughed.

"Finally, everything is in place." She said eagerly. "You’re finally going to get Erik, your mate. You win. Everything you’ve wanted is at your feet this very moment."

I watched her closely.

"Except." She continued in a menacing tone. "It’s not everything I wanted. What about me? What do I get?"

"Your life?" I said it stupidly. And then I quickly said. "Now that Jasmine is gone and we no longer have any obstructions, I’ll pay you diamonds and gold. You’ll be rich enough to start a new life and-

"SILENCE!" She screamed at me and immediately turned to her wolf.

I jumped in fright at the snarling and rage-baiting blonde wolf before me.

My heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to jump out of my chest.

She seemed to draw nearer, and I turned to the other side, trembling in fear.

Instead of an attack, she withdrew.

I heard her wolf laugh, and she reverted to her human form.

She was still laughing. "Oh, Anna. What makes you think I want any of that? I’m a skilled thief. If I wanted that, I would have taken it a long, long time ago and left."

I tried to slow the racing of my heart.

"I want Xaden." She said.

I blinked at her.

Then I scoffed.

"Xaden?" I said in disbelief.

"No not Xaden. Your hideous uncle Uther. Of

Course XADEN!"

Wh... uh... well, I can’t give you Xaden. The man has a mind of his own."

"But you got Jasmine out, didn’t you?" She asked me.

"I doubt I even had anything to do with that decision, to be honest," I said in all sincerity with a shrug.

"Well, you are about to have everything." She told me. "I can’t let that happen. Not if you give me what I want."

"How do I make Xaden have you? Have you seen him? He is like a madman sometimes! And he is my brother." I said.

"Exactly, he is your brother." She said. "You have to sort it out. Make it happen. Because if you don’t, then I’ll tell him everything. I’ll tell him about the stable boy we killed. The lies about how you were raised."

I opened my eyes in alarm. "No!"

"How we planned Jasmine’s miscarriage so many times until you went behind his back to plan with his enemy and have her set up." She continued.

"I doubt he will forgive you for that. Murder of his pack member? Xaden is loyal to his pack, if you don’t know. He will die for his pack, and to find out his own little sister killed a little boy to cover her tracks? Or that his sister lied about her life? Or..." she giggled. "My favorite. That his sister is responsible for the murder of his own child!"

I jumped from my bed and covered her mouth.

"Enough!" I whispered sharply. "It’s enough. I’ll do as you ask."

She flung my hand from her mouth.

"Good." She said.

We heard the bells ring.

"Oh, look who has returned. Your brother. My future husband." She said with an evil smile.

She headed towards the door. "Don’t waste time, Anna. Time is ticking. And if you think I can’t do this. You don’t know me. I’ll drag you down to the pits of hell with me."

And with that, she slammed the door.

I was so fucked!