Once the door was shut behind Belle, Corral jumped up.
"We need to do something!" She said. "We can’t let this girl have Xaden. We need to get rid of her as quickly as possible. My mother is going to find out she is Scarlet’s daughter."
"Relax." Aunt Cherry was reprimanded. "My God, you’re as unsettled as your daughter."
"Relax? This whole thing is about to blow. We have no plan on how to get rid of this." Corral said. "You saw her! She looks like Scarlet! Even with that scar! And if the truth comes to light, then eventually, they will somehow find out that I was the one who killed Scarlet."
Aunt Cherry rose to her feet. "Keep your voice down. If they catch us, it would be your fault! So now behave!"
But Corral closed her mouth and resumed pacing the room.
"We need to evaluate what’s going on and how we’re going to handle it all." Aunt Cherry said. "One step at a time. No need to rush anything."
Cherry sometimes disliked her niece.
She was so rash and could make the wrong decisions a lot of the time.
Cherry would have let her take the fall, but she could inadvertently ruin her plans.
"Why don’t we use the fact that she is an imposter?" Corral asked. "We could expose her, and she would be sent far away from here."
"That’s a great idea." Cherry said. "Except that allows my sister and her husband to investigate her further. Don’t you think?"
She snorted in disgust and went on thinking.
If they exposed that Jasmine was not Luna Maria’s daughter or who Xaden thought she was, the King, known as nosy, would inquire about her accurate background.
And it wouldn’t be long before they discovered who she was.
They needed to come up with something else.
"Alright, so what do we do? I’m out of ideas." Corral was exasperated.
"It’s simple. We let her be." Cherry said.
"WHAT?! WE JUST LEAVE HER LIKE THAT?!" Corral balked.
"Exactly." Cherry nodded and took a seat.
"But she is going to be discovered; they will know who she is; they will find a way. We have to get rid of her." Corral stammered.
"Don’t you know that when you try to prevent something from happening, you indirectly make that thing happen? If we try to deter her from your mother, she will somehow get to her eventually. She would get the spotlight if you tried to pin things on her. Don’t you see? But if we let her be, the chances of her finding out who she is are slim and low. We have only one more day left here."
"But what if, when we leave, she eventually finds out?" Corral asked.
"We only found out because I sensed her. I could see her blood only because she looked like a scarlet. But we’ve been able to deter that from your mother. She now thinks she is going mad again." Cherry explained.
"And okay if we succeed? One day, it’s going to come out. Somehow. I mean, Scarlet survived and somehow had this girl. She had even lived long enough for that. Then that means people would know. At least someone would know something." Corral said it in absolute frustration. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
"And we trace it." Cherry said. "We will trace her and find out how she came to live. I will use my spies."
"We need to get rid of her. That’s the only solution. One day, she could come and find out. She is under the very same roof as us!" Corral cried.
"Did I say we wouldn’t kill her? Of course, we will. But we just have to do things smartly. And not in a state of confusion like the one you’re currently in." Cherry said.
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