The Alpha's Unwanted Bride novel Chapter 636

Chapter 636: THE ACCUSED!

For a moment, no one breathed.

Not the maids.

Not the guards.

Not even Auburn whose face slowly shifted into something far more dangerous than panic.

Recognition.

Triumph.

Accusation.

"There," she said, pointing at me with a trembling finger as if she’d spotted a rat. "Her. She cleaned my room this morning."

And then Auburn’s face squeezed up. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Why was she even here in the first place?" Auburn demanded looking around. "She is not amongst any of my maids so why was she even here?"

Whispers rippled through the crowd like a wave crashing against stone. I

felt heat rise up my neck. Every pair of eyes pressed into my skin like needles.

How could I explain that due to the way the king had spoken to me about paying for every minute I stayed here, I was working as a maid.

Doing the one and only thing to do.

Queen Rose turned toward me, her expression unreadable too calm, too controlled, too quietly sharp.

"Jasmine," she said, her voice low. "Step inside."

My legs felt heavy, but they moved anyway obedient, slow, utterly exposed.

I stepped past the wall of bodies, past the murmuring maids who now watched me like I was some unfolding spectacle.

Cherry’s cold eyes tracked me.

Coral looked worried.

Auburn looked... satisfied.

"Tell us," Queen Rose said. "Were you in this room today?"

"Yes, Your Majesty," I answered softly. "I cleaned it in the morning."

There were more whispers amongst the crowd of women in the room.

Auburn folded her arms. "And the necklace was here. Right here." She tapped the spot where it had sparkled earlier. "I distinctly remember placing it there last night."

"I saw it too," I admitted, my voice trembling despite my attempt to steady it.

More whispers.

Auburn’s eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. "Oh? You saw it?"

I nodded. "Yes. But I didn’t touch it. I didn’t move it. I didn’t-

"Then where is it?" she snapped at me her eyes spitting vicious venom.

It all felt like De ja vu.

Happening over and over again.

Like how when I had lived in the moonlight pack, I had been accused times and times without number of stealing Auburn’s things.

Same in the crescent pack and now here again?

The worst part?

No one was going to believe me over the princess of the pack

I closed my eyes as I weakly whispered the truth that would still hold me guilt. "I... I don’t know."

Auburn scoffed loudly. "You don’t know? You were the last and only person who came to this very room and you tell me you don’t know? How convenient!"

Cherry stepped forward, her gown whispering over the marble floor. "Jasmine," she said, voice smooth as poisoned honey. "You say you saw the necklace, yet you left it on the table?"

"Yes," I whispered.

"And why," Cherry asked, tilting her head, "did you not place it in the drawer? Or inform a guard? Or alert anyone?"

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