Beast King'S Crippled Mate

Chapter 195: Chapter 195: Aria's Undying Envy and Hatred (1)

Anastasia walked back and forth inside the guest room, worried about what had happened in the throne room.

She wanted to stay with the Beast King outside of the throne room and wait to see what would happen next, but she was dragged into the guest room and locked in for over fifteen minutes.

She was worried that Aria had failed her mission to take out Swan's witch power, so the Beast King would be free of Swan's love charm.

'I should put more trust in Aria. She is a powerful and talented witch. I've seen what she can do inside her room,' Anastasia tried to convince herself. 'I can't wait for the Beast King to wake up out of Swan's love spell, kill her, and then fall in love with Aria. That would make everything smoother, and my plan to become the Queen of Earth would come true with an undefeatable beast by my side.'

Anastasia continued pacing back and forth until the door was opened.

She thought they were the guards who wanted to escort her back to the throne room, but it was the cat maids, who were tasked to guard Swan.

Anastasia gasped, as she thought these cat maids should've died by Aria's spell the moment they were left alone in the throne room. However, not only did they survive, one of them even carried Aria on her shoulder.

"ARIA!" Anastasia rushed towards the cat maids' side. She wanted to check on her daughter, but the cat maid pushed her out of the way and put Aria on the bed.

"She is fine," Maya said nonchalantly, as she—and the rest of the beastmen— only had their dedication, loyalty, and respect to the Beast King, not the other monarch.

"H-how could you say that? My daughter was healthy when I left her!" Anastasia protested as she sat on the bedside and put her hand on Aria's chest to check her heartbeat.

Myra and Maya looked at each other, and replied, "She just fainted after five minutes in the throne room. It's probably too cold for her, or maybe she's just tired. We will call the doctor to check on her."

"You'd better be! Swan must've done something to her, right? Aria is a weak girl, she wouldn't dare to fight back if Swan bullied her!" Anastasia yelled even though it was a big fat lie.

She didn't know what happened in the throne room, but since Aria fainted, she guessed that Swan must've been an even more powerful dark witch, to the point that not even Aria could win against that crippled woman.

"Watch your mouth, Queen of Holy Achate," Maya responded coldly. "She was just kneeling for five minutes and then fainted. Do you think we will believe what you said just now? Queen Swan has been very kind. We could've killed your daughter if she told us to."

"Honestly, we are more than willing to do that. Unfortunately, our Queen is generous and virtuous," Myra added.

"You two-" Anastasia glared at them. She was so distressed because Aria had failed her mission, and she was also scared that she'd lose her throne soon. These two cat maids' words were like rubbing salt on a fresh wound. "You two are just maids! Is this how you treat two honored guests?!"

"We've heard everything from the Beast King," Myra said.

"We know that you've been neglecting our Queen when she was growing up. There is no point in treating you two well," Maya added. "Please excuse us, we will call the doctor now."

The cat maids left the room arrogantly, as they left the room with their heads held high. Anastasia couldn't help but fume at the disrespect a mere maids showed

her.

"Just you wait until my daughter becomes the Queen of the Beastmen Kingdom. I will make sure you two get executed!" Anastasia muttered angrily, but she only dared to do this when the cat maids were already out of the room.

She returned her attention to Aria, and slapped her cheeks lightly, "Aria. Aria!

Wake up! What happened? What's wrong with you?!"

Aria slowly opened her eyes after a while. She looked dazedly at the ceiling and realized she was still in Gale's castle. She felt no pain around her body, so she knew that

Swan must've fully healed her like

before.

At the same time, her body also felt empty, as if Swan had just sucked fifty years out of her life.

She tried to flick her finger to see if she could still levitate, produce fire, move objects, or do anything that could prove she still had her witch power.

Unfortunately, nothing happened. No matter how many times she tried to conjure any kind of spell.

It seemed that she had truly lost the dark power she had accumulated for months after she had sacrificed so many people just to get stronger.

Now it was all gone after she got purified by the woman who called herself Saintess Swan.

"Aria! Are you okay?"

"I'm okay, Mom," Aria replied calmly, but her gaze was still directed at the high ceiling.

"Oh, thank Goddess, you're alive!" Anastasia sighed in relief as she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes. "I was scared that I would lose you!"

Aria glanced at her mother who looked genuinely worried. She wasn't affected by her mother's tears After all, she never truly had a proper mother-daughter relationship with her.

However, Anastasia was the only one she could call as a family, and Aria cared about her, at least caring enough not to sacrifice her immediately.

Aria had lost her magic power, but for some reason, she still felt there must be a way to kill Swan or at least destroy her life.

Saintess Swan said that the necklace given by Madam Harsetti symbolized Aria's envy for Swan, and though she hated to admit it, the Saintess was absolutely right.

She was envious of Swan; her beauty, her purity, her voice, and her new husband.noveldrama