The Alpha's Unwanted Bride

Chapter 390: THE POISON

”I beg your pardon?” Queen Rose exclamation in shock.

”Yes.” The woman informed her. ”Your tea is a very dangerous herb made with magic. Someone with magic has meant for you to die.”

Rose was so taken aback by the news that she believed she was going to faint.

Someone in her kingdom had been poisoning her?

For how long she wondered.

”How long?” Rose demanded unable to control her emotions.

She was furious.

”How long have you been feeling ill?” The woman asked her.

Rose thought about it for a while .

When she was a child she had never been sickly.

It had been after she had ascended the throne.

After she had her daughters .

”After I had my girls.” Rose said tears of rage burning at the far corners of her eyes. ”After I gave birth I had been feeling ill. I didn’t tell anyone because I believed that it wasn’t quite serious until my daughter went missing. It got worse.”

”With the way you have consumed it.” The woman said. ”You should have been dead. But your powers as Queen Luna saved you and your daughters in your womb too. That’s why you didn’t die. But if you hadn’t found out and continued taking it, you would have eventually died.”

Rose’s mind was reeling.

Spinning from the effect of the words.

So her illness had been from poisoning.

Someone in her own Kingdom had been poisoning her.

”Who did this?” Rose demanded in rage.

The woman shook her head. ”I am afraid, I don’t know. You would have to trace who regularly makes your tea.”

Since her parents shipwreck, strict rules have even placed to prevent something bad from happening to Rose.

There had been more security and her meals had been monitored.

She had had only one meal taster all her life.

It was one of her most trusted seven at a and she had been with her from the moment, the laws had been enforced on her.

”Your meal taster.” The woman said. ”If she was ever tasting your meal, then she should be dead a long time ago.”

”She is alive.” Rose said. ”She doesn’t look ill. She has only aged like everyone else.”

”You need to understand me.” The woman said. ”You are alive because you carried three powers of the royal wolf blood. Yours as you were still Queen and then you that of your daughters. That is the only reason why you are still alive to this day. If you had continued taking them for a year plus you would have been dead.”

Rose felt betrayed ultimately betrayed.

Bernice had planned to kill her, all this while.

But why?

She had never done anything outright to hurt her, so why would she do this.

”And if this servant of yours is just a mere maid.” The woman said. ”Then I don’t think she did this alone. The magic to make such a poison, is very difficult. Someone must have been practicing for years and very experienced.”

”Thank the gods you came.” Rose said. ”All these years I have been dying. And now you have saved your life”.

The woman’s face went cold.

”What’s wrong?”

”You aren’t really far from the danger.” she expressed.

”But you said I won’t die.” Rose said weakly.

”Not exactly.” She said. ”Like I said any normal wolf or even Alpha would have been well dead from that poison. You are still alive because of the powers to your crown. When the next heir ascends the throne, the powers would leave you and you would be vulnerable. This is years and and years of damage. You are just barely surviving. Once the power leaves you and finds your next heir, then you would die. You can’t survive.”

Rose felt as if she had received a massive blow to her chest.

She was going to die?

When her grand daughter ascended the throne.

”There is nothing that can be done?” She asked in disbelief, her heart racing so quickly .

The woman shook her head. ”I’m sorry. Not unless you kill the next heir and make sure no one else sits on the throne.”

”The goddess forbid such a thing.” Rose spat in disgust. ”I can never kill my granddaughter or deny her of her right to seat on the throne because of my own selfish interest.”

”You are a Queen with honor.” The woman said .

”Please don’t tell anyone this.” Queen Rose pleaded as she urgently grabbed the woman’s hands.

”Of course your majesty.” The woman promised. ”Once you stop taking the tea and have more of the lyrun herb, then you won’t be ill anymore. But the damage is done.”

Rose rose to her feet from the couch.

”Thank you for your help.” Rose said. ”I believe it is now time for me to find out who did this to me.”

”Wait.” The woman said. ”Back to why I am here. Your daughter survived.”

Rose froze, unable to move.

She just stood there unable to speak .

The hair on her body stood at attention.

She felt like she was driving.

”I believe she survived from drowning in the lake.” She informed her.

Rose had been looking for her daughter this entire time, and had eventually been forced to give up.

She had been forced to accept that her daub was dead.

And now that she had, she was being told that she was alive?

”If you’re here to deceive me.” The frightened Queen said taking a step back. ”Using my pains as a means to your satisfaction, then I promise you that you would regret it.”

”I would not lie to you.” The woman said standing up to face her. ”Not after what you have been through.”

”And yet you disappeared for almost twenty years.” Rose said. ”You disappeared from my court without a word and had made me believe that my child was alive. And here you are.”

”Your majesty I am very sorry. I know you don’t believe me.” The woman said. ”But I haven’t just disappeared. I have been looking for her. Searching for her all these years.l

”And why should I believe you?” Rose snapped at her. ”What do you have to gain for bringing my daughter back to me that you would search for her over twenty years.

The woman went quiet at first and said.

”Because Evil is coming.”