Beast King'S Crippled Mate

Chapter 212: Chapter 212: Bunny's Teary Confession (II)

"But, Princess..."

"If you two continue to argue with me to defend her, then you two can leave the room," Swan interrupted coldly. "I do not need attendants who prioritize their friend over me in a critical situation."

The cat maids immediately trembled in fear. They had never seen Princess Swan saying something so cold and distant. They had been dedicating their lives to her and thought that their Princess was a soft-hearted woman who wouldn't even hurt a fly.

That's why seeing Princess Swan showing her coldness like this caught them off guard.

The cat maids felt conflicted, but they decided not to argue anymore, as they knew Princess Swan was their King's beloved wife.

"You cannot leave this room until you eat the remaining food on the breakfast tray," Swan repeated, and Alice knew she would probably be on the brink of death if she ate the poisoned white rice and ginger tea.

'Hah! Just as expected, this bitch Swan is truly a cruel and cold woman. She already knows the foods are poisoned, but still forces me to eat them,' Alice sneered in her heart. 'I guess it's time for me to act according to Princess Aria- the REAL Saintess' instruction!'

"Come on, Alice. Just eat those and you are free to go," Myra encouraged.

"Just get it over with, Alice," Maya added.

Alice began her act by acting confused, and scared. Tears began welling in her eyes as she stared at Swan pleadingly, "P-please, Your Majesty, I—"

"Eat them," Swan repeated.

"I-I can't! I don't want to die, Your Majesty!" Alice said as she dropped to her knees and sobbed like a kid.

The cat maids were shocked by Alice's sudden change, but they were even more shocked when they saw that Princess Swan and Lady Long were indifferent, as if they had known something the cat maids didn't.

"Why not? It's the food that you, yourself, served to Lady Long," Swan questioned.

"I-I can't, l-I will die if I eat those!" Alice said as she continued crying. freewebnovel.com

"A-Alice, what's wrong? What did you do?" the cat maids said in unison as they were both worried and confused.

"She's crying because she has been caught red-handed," Swan explained calmly. "She poisoned the white rice and the ginger tea, knowing that Lady Long would most likely eat those. She knows she can't eat them because it would make you extremely ill, or die instantly."

"Poisoned?!" the cat maids

exclaimed in shock. They shook their heads, simultaneously, as they couldn't believe Alice would do. such a thing. Between the two, Myra recovered first and said, "P-Princess, there must be a misunderstanding here. Alice is a good girl. She works very hard as a maid, and has never done anything wrong."

"W-we spend most of our time in the kitchen preparing food, and we have never seen her add anything dangerous to it!" Maya added.

"Of course, she won't do it in front of you two. But the fact remains that she did it before she served the food to Lady Long," Swan scoffed coldly. "Since you two don't believe me, why don't you ask your good friend instead?"

Maya and Myra turned their heads towards Alice, but before they could say anything, Alice admitted, "I-I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I've been forced to do it! It was Lady Jade who wanted to see Lady Long die, so she forced me to poison her food! She threatened to kill me if I dared to disobey her!"

Swan frowned, and so did Long Xiurong.

The direction of the confession coming from Alice was different from their expectation. They expected Alice to start throwing insults if she could not handle the pressure.

If she could, Swan expected her to act ignorant and refused to admit it, because getting accused of poisoning the royal would grant her a death sentence.

Thus, Alice's sudden confession caught Swan off guard, and it took her a while to answer her plea, "So, you are trying to poison Lady Long instead of reporting what Lady Jade planned to do? I think you are just as guilty as she is."

"N-No, please listen to me, Your Majesty! I've been trying to talk to you, but the banquet kept you occupied for the past week."

"So why don't you tell ME instead? I'm the one you poisoned," Long Xiurong challenged. She felt that the direction of the conversation was not good. Princess Swan had a soft heart. She might actually pity this bunny and forgive her if this kept going.

Alice looked at Lady Long with the same pitiful gaze. She began to cry her heart out as if she fully regretted her action.

"I'm sorry, Milady. I-I'm just so scared and confused. I've been trying to tell you about this, but you seem to hate me, so I got scared! Alice Confessed. "I-I really don't want to kill you, but whenever I tried to refuse, Lady Jade would slap me. You've seen me with red cheeks many times before!" Alice added. Her tears only made it even more convincing that she had been forced. "I want to tell you everything, but I feel alone in this castle, so I have no choice but to swallow it and

continue to do what Lady Jade ordered me to do!" noveldrama

Long Xiurong was astonished because, for some reason, she also began to doubt herself. This bunny maid's acting was so stellar that she started to consider if it was truly her fault for antagonizing the bunny maid for the past week, so she couldn't say anything to Long Xiurong.

Alice turned her gaze at Swan again and crawled towards her. The bunny maid held her legs and looked up to plead at Swan, "Y-Your Majesty, I know what I did is wrong. I'm ready to be punished, but please don't kill me, and please don't let me return to my tribe. My tribe's people would kill me if they know I've brought disgrace to them!"

Swan's heart softened a bit as Alice seemed to be genuinely remorseful and scared as if she was the real victim of this situation caused by Lady Jade.

"Your Majesty, don't fall into her trap. She's just trying to fish for sympathy!" Long Xiurong warned as she was scared of what Swan would say next.