The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 393

Chapter 393: THE PROMISE

Bernice wept.

"I will save your family and give them protection. I give you my word as Queen Luna. Nothing will happen to them. Just tell me who it is."

Bernice continued to weep. "I swear your majesty. She is going to kill my family and everything I love. I never wanted to hurt you, but she made me do it."

She?

Rose felt a chill in her bones.

It was a woman?

Now Rose was truly troubled and wanted to know who had done this .

Rose decided to try a different approach.

Rose picked up Bernice’s chin with her fingertips and forced her to look at her.

But Bernice turned her face away

"Look at me Bernice." She said very gently and Bernice did.

"I can understand that the person who did this has a hold on you and has made you tied to tell for whatever reason, I don’t know." Rose said very gently. "I am The Queen of this Realm. All wolves bow to me, even the King is not close to how powerful I am. No one is as powerful as I am. The mages fear me. I am not someone you or your family would want as an enemy."

Bernice swallowed.

"I am someone you want on your side and I would protect not just your family, but you also." Rose informed her.

Bernice seemed skeptical. "But why would you? I poisoned you all these years and you have been nothing but good to me. You are going to kill me even after all of this." _{freewёbnoνel.com}

And Bernice continued to weep.

"I give you my word. I will not kill you. I swear on my crown."

Rose promised.

"But she still will." Bernice said. "If you don’t kill me she would."

"What does this woman have a hold on you for?" Rose questioned wondering what on earth would make Bernice forced to do such a thing.

"My little girl." Bernice said. "Alice. She was dying about the year before you ascended the throne. I needed help, did everything I could. Sold everything I could. My husband and I have no money, we are poor wolves and so we were forced to look for. And then she came and offered to help us. She took us to a healer. A mage healer that we would never in our entire life thought we could afford. I know that it isn’t allowed for us wolves to seek counsel from wages but your majesty I swear we had no choice. We were desperate."

"And so our little girl was healed. She survived and we were so grateful. We had no money to pay and she said it was a gift from her to us." Bernice said. "We accepted, thinking she was good. But then she came to me when I was chosen to become your meal taster and gave me the task to look away and never taste your meal as I had been asked to."

Rose was confused. "How did this woman know that you would be chosen to become my meal taster. It goes through a Very tight and strict process. How had she know any of this at all?"

Bernice swallowed. "She is someone closer than you think. She told me she had manipulated it and made me the royal meal taster. I told her that I couldn’t do it, but she told me that if I didn’t, she was going to accuse me of treason and disobeying the laws. She was going to make sure that i and my entire family was dead. I had no choice. That was how I came to be in such a situation your majesty."

"You could have come to me." Rose said ignorantly.

And Bernice looked up at her, her eyes still flowing heavy tears. "You would Shevardnadze never believed the words of a mere servant to the words of your own."

And it hit Rose that was true.