Chapter 44 The Wicked Plot
Chapter 44
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Lyra's POV.
Three weeks later.
It wasn't news anymore about the stunt I pulled in the clinic at Crimson pack.
I had begged Rosa to talk to Alpha Jax not to proclaim it. I want it that way. Till my mission is complete here. Not only that, she should also warn Caramel not to proclaim it.
Rosa had recuperated rapidly and stupid alpha Jax thinks this is the time for him to strengthen the bond between him and Rosa.
A couple of times I had stepped into Alpha Jax's quarters with the hope of carrying out my job like cleaning up and setting up the place when I used to find both of them sleeping with each other right there in the living room.
Alpha Jax had promised Rosa that he would give maximum support and attention and never starve Rosa of his body.
Since both of them had been confirmed that they couldn't give birth, I also caught them saying it, once that they are secretly planning to adopt an heir.
No one else except Caramel and I knew about their fertility status.
In a stormfang pack it is a taboo to bring an adopted heir to the throne.
I have been the closest maid to lyra now which carries her secret properly. Even now, there is nothing about her secret she could not discuss.
But yet I never stop showing up in her dreams. Yesterday was horrible. I beat her so much in a dream that she woke up and saw bruises.
She slept alone in bed because Alpha Jax had gone with a few elders to the neighboring pack to meet a company that would supply fresh water to the stormfang pack since the one in the pack had been bad and not suitable for drinking.
The king had issued a decree that he would be the one in charge of how water would be distributed to every household.
Rosa had instructed me to prepare a meal for her visitor. She sent someone to me while staying in my room to that effect.
I had prepared one of my favorite meals: creamy mushroom and thyme stew.
I had properly arranged everything in a serving tray and took them into Rosa's room.
I had stepped into the room to arrange the food on a mini table at the corner of the room.
Rosa was sitting at the edge of her bed tidying up her hair, my intention was that Caramel was the visitor although she had always been the only consistent visitor who had always shown up to the palace.
Then I was shocked to hear someone whose voice I could recognize in a thick darkness, so is it right to say you have abandoned the plan?”
Which plan mother?"
The word mother hit like a blow ? Tracy? Where had she been all this while?
Our plan? Vexhood's plan?” She quickly cut in.
She looked into her daughter's eyes sending a body signal that a stranger was in the room and she didn't want to give up a lot.
Oh! Mother!” Rosa quickly read her body language.
Meet Lyra. The woman that saved my life at Crimson. In fact I would have been dead, buried and forgotten.
Then she stretched her hand towards me, we grabbed hers too, bending low to pay homage. She quickly retracted her hand like spikes had penetrated into her bloodstream coming from mine. She felt something strange.
I smiled inside wickedly to see another face of evil. Tracy, my step mother. Our eyes locked on each other not for friendship but for something strange and difficult to explain.
She quickly turned to Rosa and was busy at the end of the room trying to get a parting comb to rearrange her hair.
“We need to talk now!”
Rosa who didn't even pay attention to her command, like it was nothing. She is busy looking everywhere including the drawer for her parting comb.
I said, "we need to see now!” Tracy bellowed at the top of her voice.
Rosa turned to her, shocked, “mother is there …”
“I said, for the last time Rosa we need to see now " Tracy's voice quickly cut-in with a kind of voice that made someone think as if a ghost had just entered the room.
Her eyes hovered like she had seen a demon.