"What?" Lily said as she dropped the spoon she was using to fetch sugar.
"Yes." Anna said relishing in the moment. "That was what he told me. I shouldn’t have said anything."
"I... it’s o.. okay." Lily managed.
But Anna could see that it was not okay.
Lily’s face was pale and white like she had just seen a ghost.
Anna took delight in the fact she had succeeded in hurting Lily’s feelings and getting a reaction out of her.
Xaden’s admission to Jasmine being pregnant had thrown her under the horse.
She couldn’t believe it.
It was the LAST thing she had expected from either of them.
But she had been forced to put a show.
If Xaden had our Jasmine in their mother’s room then it meant that he cared about her.
And that was why she didn’t trust how much bad information she could give him about her or how Tudor she acted towards her.
He might begin to suspect that she was hiding her true self from him.
So she had been forced to act happy for the both of them when in reality she was furious.
Lily was her best bet of Jasmine out of the pack.
She was his mate after all.
Anna got up from her seat and hovered over to where Lily was.
She gently held her arms and rubbed her back.
"I am so sorry that you had to find out like this." Anna said and her words made Lily begin shedding tears.
Anna picked up a handkerchief and handed it to Lily.
"Thank you." Lily said in appreciation.
She cleaned her eyes and blew her nose and sniffed.
"I am so sorry you had to see me like this". Lily apologized.
"There is nothing wrong with you expressing how you feel." Anna assured her. "You are my brother’s mate. It is you who should carry his child, not some random slave. I don’t trust her. If you know the horrible things she did to me."
And then Anna sniffed and forced herself some tears.
"Excuse me. I am sorry." Anna said turning her face around to hide fake tears.
She felt Lily’s hand on her shoulders.
"I didn’t know she was this terrible." Lily said. "I only saw her as a defenseless slave."
Anna have a funny laugh and cleaned her tears. "Defenseless slave my foot. She was such a horrible person to me back in her father’s pack."
And then she proceeded to spin fake stories of how Jasmine had been the princess in the pack while she had been the one suffering and made to work morning and night.
Lily took in her story, believing her every word.
"I and so sorry that you went through that." Lily said in disbelief.
Anna nodded wiping a tear.
"I did."
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