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Chapter 90

MALIYA

My eyes pricked with tears as I watched Claudia look at me indifferently. She had never looked at me like that before. She was always so nice and ready to help me. Was it all a lie? What did I ever do to her? I could still remember how she helped the wash my hair as I told her about my feelings the last time I saw her.

We had a food relationship so why is she suddenly being cold? Did something happen while I was

unconscious?

“Claudia please, I don’t know what is going on but I really need to get out of here. If you are acting like this because I offended you in any way, then I’d apologize properly, just please, help me get out of here. I pleaded desperately and she burst out laughing.

“Do you think begging would make me have a change of heart? You don’t even know me,” she chuckled, making me confused.

Y you are Claudia, aren’t you?” I looked at her, confused about what was happening as I took a closer look at her.

I couldn’t have mistaken her with someone else. I was certain that this was Claudia. Her smell and everything is the same. How can I mistake someone I considered as a good friend with someone else?

She seemed pretty amused by my reaction and my heart started heating fast.

I’m not crazy. I know what I’m saying. This is definitely Claudia. Why is she looking at me like that?

“I’m sorry to break it to you, but my name is not Claudia,” she announced, and it felt like I was getting delusional and maybe all of this was just happening in my head.

“What do you mean you are not Claudia? I know you! You Claudia… we are friends. You are the ‘kindest person to me at the Lava Pack. You are the one that makes me forget my worries! I was going to kill myself, remember? You stopped me from having vicious thoughts and told me to accept my fate,” I reminded her and she chuckled.

“Of course, I remember my words,” she let out a hysterical laugh. “I never said I don’t know you, all I said was my name is not Claudia,” she corrected, leaving me even more confused.

“If your name is not Claudia then what is your name? Why won’t you help me get out of here? Aren’t you here on Alpha Xander’s order?” I asked.

I still don’t understand anything that is going on right now and it is driving me crazy. I need an explanation. I need charity. Why is the seer keeping me here? Who is she working with? Why is Claudia not Claudia anymore.

Everything here is so confusing and I don’t think I want to find out anything anymore, I just want to leave.

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“Don’t trouble your brains girl because you will never understand,” Claudia said as if she could read my mind. “I am far from what you know or what anyone knows for that matter,” her face beamed with pride as she spoke and I couldn’t understand what she was saying or why she would decide to just make things hard by speaking in parables.

“If you are not the Claudia everyone knows you to be, then who are you? Why are you always so nice to me? Or rather, why did you pretend to be my friend?” I asked as I looked at her face because it was clear now that she never really did like me.

“You want to know who I am?” She chucked as she moved closer to me. She sat down on the floor and pulled a strand of my hair behind my ear like she always does. For a second I’d have thought she really cared about me because of the softness in her Yes before it switched to a cold glare.

“The answer is simple, my love. I am someone who has vowed to ruin Alpha Xander and everyone related to him, and even if that is the last thing I do before I die, then I guess I can then rest in peace,” she spat out, and I felt chills down my spine.

I could feel the hatred in her voice, and the more I thought about it, the crazier it sounded. What does she mean by she wants to ruin Alpha Xander? I don’t know what happened in the past before I › got there, but I have never seen Alpha Xander mistreat or anything so why was she holding a

grudge against him?

The more I try to understand everything going on the more my head hurts. My body felt numb and stiff. I can’t move even if I want to and the more thought of not being able to lift any part of my body was enough to frustrate me, and then all of this is happening again.

Just what exactly is going on?

I have never been so confused in my life. I understand that some matters are complicated but what isn’t? Even my life is complicated because how can someone be tormenting me because they want to get back at Alpha Xander who probably doesn’t care about me aside the baby I am carrying in my womb.

Everything is so frustrating right now and I can’t even think straight anymore.

“You have a grudge against Alpha Xander, I get it. He is a cold man and not a lot of people like him. But why am I involved in all of this? I have never done anything to you. It wasn’t even my choice that I was dragged to the Lava Pack in the first place so why am I suffering right now?” I asked as tears streamed down my face.

“Aw, blame it on your luck girl because I made a vow to myself to ruin Alpha Xander and make sure he never gets happy. I don’t have anything against you, but unfortunately, you are carrying his child, hence, you are my enemy now,” she announced.

“What did he do so wrong? Why can’t you forgive him? Why did you hate him so much?” I asked with a cracked voice and she smiled.

“Let me tell you a short story,” she said, and I stared at her, eager to know what Alpha Xander did so wrong to her.

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“Before I tell you the story, allow me to introduce myself properly,” she said with a grin on her face and I watched her in disbelief.

Claudia was always so calm and nice. The person sitting in front of me on the contrary looks like an evil person and I am more than curious to know why she would go through all those stress of being a maid and even working tirelessly just to ruin someone.

“I am Felicia Howard,” she announced and I think I have heard the name before. Alpha Xander has definitely mentioned that name to me but I can’t seem to recall who she was.

If she was Felicia and if she knew Alpha Xander as well as he knew her, why would he allow her to stay under his roof?

I couldn’t stop thinking about how a lot of things didn’t make any sense, so I decided to listen to her instead.

“Like I said earlier,” she cleared her throat and my eyes were fixed on her. “I’m Felicia, Alpha Xander’s ex–mate,” she announced and my jaw dropped.

“You are what?” I think I had suddenly developed a hearing problem, and I couldn’t help but stare at her in disbelief.

If she was Alpha Xander’s ex–mate, that means she was the one who rejected him because she thought he was ugly and decided to go out with her brother instead.

“Yes,” she confirmed as if she could read my thoughts.

“How is that possible?” I asked in disbelief.

Alpha Xander told me that he made sure to kill her with his brother on the same day, in the same place.

No, actually, he gave her a choice to come to him but she chose to die than go to him so he granted her wishes.

If what Claudia is saying right now is the truth, how did she get back into the palace? I am sure Alpha Xander couldn’t have forgotten her face. Did he turn her into a maid on purpose? To show her that he is the one in power now?

Her silence is killing me, and she seems to be enjoying the confused look on my face.

“How is what possible?” Claudia chuckled as she looked at me. “Are you asking about how I am still alive, or how I managed to get back into the palace without anyone noticing?” She asked and I think I wanted to know everything.

“I heard you were dead. How can you still be alive and how come Alpha Xander doesn’t even recognize you?” I asked and she smiled.

“Well, I did say that I was going to tell you a story so how about you exercise patient?” She chuckled.

“It was true that Alpha Xander killed me after killing his family or so he thought,” she smiled. “Well,

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So what happened? You didn’t die like he thought? All of that still makes sense, but how did you rage to deceive him?” I asked out of curiosity.

“I only you would just relax and allow me to spill the tea,” she caress my cheeks, making me feel sick to my stomach.

I was still in so much pain and I wished she would just let me go, but she seemed to be more interested in the story she had to tell.

“Well, some people just happened to be passing through the place where my body was dumped and they took pity on me. My Mistress, Sabrina who happened to be the last of her kind. The only surviving witch left saw me and saved me,” she said and my jaw dropped.

A witch? She was saved by a witch? Aren’t they supposed to be like some wicked creature? What is she doing with them? Why is she talking about her proudly when she should be scared?

I had a lot of questions, but I kept my mouth shut as I listened to her.

“What happened next?” My heart skipped a beat as I asked.

“What do you expect? My face was completely ruined from the way he maimed me ruthlessly, and „so was my body,” she clenched her fist as she spoke, and I could feel her rage,

“I had a beautiful face, Maliya. I was the prettiest girl in the whole of Lava Pack! Men would always queue in front of my house to ask for my hands in marriage but among all the people in the world! That ugly bastard turned out to be my mate,” she hissed.

She went quiet for a while as if she was trying to control herself. She broke the silence.

“My mistress was kind enough to give me a new look which is ugly by the way,” she said with a sore look on her face. “Do you know how hard I cried whenever I watched my new face in the mirror?” She glared at me and I shook my head in disbelief,

I have heard stories of witches in the past but I never knew any of them existed.

“So I made a vow to myself to ruin Alpha Xander no matter what I make sure that he is alone and miserable for the rest of his life.”

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