Chapter 27
“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.”
Fioan 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
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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
