She scoffed in defense and tried to appear innocent by folding her shoulders inward.
“Oh, that’s ridiculous. Everyone knows that these areas are off limits,” she contended.
“If that was true then why are you here?” I asked back. “Why would you drag me all the
way out here, claiming that Alexander had asked for me to be here?”
No one spoke.
Fiona quickly shook her head in denial. “It’s not true.”
I took a solid step forward, feeling my own anger and desperation to save my own life coursing through me.
“It is true!” I declared. “And you wanna know how I can prove it?”
“Tell me,” Alexander said sternly.
“Ask Nina.”
Fiona’s features filled with panic. All the color, practically, drained from her face.
“Alexander, I knew you were going to be busy here – you told me as much this morning before we both left the dining room.” He gave a curt nod, allowing me to continue. “You knew Nina and I were meeting with a few members from my old pack about the seeds Grandma Wendy and I were going to have planted. Before I was able to hand them over
to Wendy, Fiona approached the two of us in the corridor. She said, and I quote, ‘Alexander reached out to me to inform you that he’d like for you to go and meet him at the camps today’.”
Alexander slowly turned his head to glare at Fiona who refused to so much as lift her eyes off the ground.
“I, myself, couldn’t believe that you would call for me to come out here. I’ll admit I had my doubts. You and I are still new to this whole marriage thing, and I didn’t want to come off like I was ignoring your orders so…I followed her out here.”
We all watched as Alexander waved his hand out, signaling for Oliver to lower his weapon. This allowed some of the much-needed air to return to my lungs.
The Alpha’s look was still questionable. “The guards – “
“Had no idea what I was doing here, or even who I was. That should have been the second major indicator to tell me that I shouldn’t have been out here in the first place. Once they let us through, Fiona went on to say that
I should help straighten up the place. But the more I glanced around, nothing needed to be organized.”
Fiona was determined to stand her ground.
“Surely, you can’t believe a word of what she says,” she said through pursed lips. “She probably bribed Nina so that if you were to ask her for her side of this story, she would back Evelyn up. Believe me, when I found her, she was rustling through a bunch of drawers and cabinets, probably looking for your treasure, Alexander.”
My brows drew together in utter confusion. “His what?”
“Don’t try and act all innocent,” she remarked. “I saw you looking through everything. That box he’s holding right now – you took a glance inside and deemed it all worthless. And then you proceeded to toss it to the ground like the heathen you are. You don’t even care if the treasure is damaged or not.”
“I don’t even know what’s in that box!” I exclaimed loudly. “I would never do anything like that. You’re the one who’d been stalking in the corner. You waited until Alexander was
about to come in and then you threw the box to the ground.”
The dull ache was starting in the side of my head. I pinched the bridge of my nose and tried to make sense of the situation.
“This is insane,” I muttered. “You’re really making all of these accusations against me…I don’t even know what’s in that box. Yet you claim I would deem it worthless. Alexander, would you be willing to open it and check to see if whatever is in there is broken?”
Alexander opened the box and took out a handcrafted necklace that looked far too familiar. It was then that my nerves instantly calmed.
I turned to Fiona with a smirk playing on my lips. “You claimed that I believed that necklace is of little value?”
“Yes,” she hissed.
“Well, that’s how I can prove you’re lying.”
I slowly reached into the pocket and took out the necklace that I always kept on me. It was the same necklace my mother had left me. I
held it out for everyone to see.
I stepped over to Alexander and carefully held it out for him to see the near-identical comparison between the two.
Everyone was stunned at the revelation.
“This is the heirloom my mother gave me. How could I possibly say that his necklace held no value?”
[Evelyn’s POV]
For a brief moment, Alexander and I had fallen into a silent world of our own. Upon my showing him the necklace that once belonged to my mother, he’d become captivated with its same intricate detail and craftsmanship as the one that belonged to him.
All the earlier tension between the two of us had melted away within seconds. He silently held out his hand, as though he were asking permission to get a closer look at my mother’s necklace. Carefully, I placed it in his free hand.
He spoke so softly that I nearly missed his words. “How is this possible?”
I could have sworn that I saw the corners of his mouth curve upward into a wondrous smile. It gave me a spark of pride, knowing that I was the one who gave him that feeling.
There wasn’t a single ounce of doubt in his expression when it came to my side of the story. However, Fiona was desperately trying to grasp at whatever angle of the situation she
could.
“Oh, please. That has to be a fake!” she hissed. “Alexander, you know that I would never go against your orders. Can’t you see that this girl is nothing but a scheming bitch that’s only after your wealth and status? Alexander, please, you have to listen – “
“Enough!!” Alexander snarled viciously.
Fiona went completely stiff where she stood. Her eyes were wide and her face was mirrored with looks of uncertain fear.
Alexander calmly placed the necklace back in the box. “Thank you, Evelyn,” he said quietly.
I took that as my cue to put away my mother’s necklace and take a good few steps back. Alexander pushed himself forward in his wheelchair until he’d crossed the room to stare back at Fiona.
Considering I’d been on the receiving end of that unsettling glare, I knew precisely what she was feeling. It was truly frightening. And knowing that she had been caught in the middle of her grand lie, she didn’t really have a way out of it.
“I don’t know why the two of you have gone out of your way to cause such trouble for Evelyn,” he started. “But I’m telling, right now, that it’s not going without consequences.”
Fiona’s complexion grew intensely pale. “Alexander, you can’t seriously believe her. She’s nothing more than a wild – “
Alexander spoke through clenched teeth. “Fiona. I’m suspending you from entering these grounds for one month.”
Her bottom lip trembled in anguish. “B-But – “
“One month,” he snarled. “You’re to return to your own pack. Consider yourself lucky. If your role wasn’t so vital to this pack, I would have made the punishment for your little scheme ten times worse. I don’t want to see you anywhere near here. Understand?”
Tears filled her eyes. Fiona turned on her heels without so much as another word and ran out.
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