Fated to the Cursed Lycan Prince by Dark Knight
Chapter 1090 Logical Analysis
Crystal’s POV:
“If I hadn’t come, you’d probably run out of tears.” Laura poked my forehead with her finger in rebuke. I knew she expected me to handle matters better than this.
I hurriedly wiped my tears away and ducked my head in embarra*s*sment.
“Aren’t you usually tough and unfazed by anything?” Laura asked, though I could hear a hint of sympathy in her tone. “Why did you turn into a coward and ran away after some scolding from Rufus? You are on the right side. If anyone had to run away, it most definitely isn’t you.”
Laura scoffed before plopping down beside me. She glanced sideways at me, her eyes twinkling with amusement. “Just look at your face. Your eyes are all swollen. Tell me, are you feeling aggrieved?” “It’s not that. I just find it hard to accept,” I muttered under my breath. Somehow, Laura’s presence eased my sorrow.
“I understand,” she said, patting my hand in earnest. “Don’t worry. That Adela girl won’t be
staying for long. I saw through her tricks right away.”
I perked up in surprise. “You think Adela is scheming something?”
“Of course! I married a king, and I surely have been more b*tches than you can ever imagine during those years.” Laura proudly raised her chin.
I found her show of bravado cute. “It’s true that Adela suddenly appeared from out of nowhere.”
“Oh, I don’t think it’s all that sudden,” Laura said with a sarcastic smirk. “It was an orchestrated move.” Then she turned to look at me, and her face grew serious. “Since it was you who saved Rufus, then that means that Adela is lying. Although, we have no way of knowing her reasons at the moment. We need to at least find a way to make her slip up and expose herself.”
I was moved by Laura’s unconditional trust in me. My thoughts wandered back to Rufus. He used to believe in me without reservation, too, no matter what happened.
I leaned over and gave Laura a tight hug. “Thank you, Laura.”
She seemed taken aback by this, but I soon felt her stroking my back. “Don’t think too much about Rufus for now. That silly idiot must be wallowing in confusion as we speak. After all, it’s no small matter to find one’s mate, supposedly under the Moon Goddess’ guidance.”
“I know. Our priority right now is to find out Adela’s motive for doing this.”
After listening to Laura’s logical analysis of the situation, my head finally started to clear. I ticked off the details that didn’t add up. Firstly, I was the one who had saved Rufus, so Adela was clearly lying.
More than that, there was no doubt in my mind that their so-called mate bond was fabricated in one way or another. Perhaps f0rced, even. I was still here, and I was still Rufus’ mate. There was no way that Moon Goddess would have guided him to a second mate while I was still around.
As if reading my thoughts, Laura voiced them out with a frown. “The one thing I don’t understand is why Rufus is so convinced that Adela is his mate. Shouldn’t he have known by her scent that she isn’t who she claims to be?”
I mulled this over in my head until I recalled reading about a very little-known potion in a book of witchcraft that my mother had passed down to me. The potion was said to make someone mistake a different person as their mate. However, the potion’s effects only lasted for a month.
Did Adela have something to do with the black witches?
I relayed my suspicions to Laura, who pondered it as well. “I am in charge of the wedding arrangements. If I stall it for over a month, Adela is bound to expose herself, right?” “That’s a good idea,” I said after some consideration. “The potion only works on its victim once, after which they develop an immunity to the substance. It won’t work on the same victim for a second time.” “Now then, the only thing I’m worried about is if Rufus somehow falls in love with Adela during that time,” Laura pointed out.
I immediately dismissed the possibility. I wasn’t entirely sure, but I simply refused to believe that Rufus would fall in love with another she-wolf.
Laura’s tone was careful when she spoke next. “The problem is that I’ve noticed that Adela is trying to imitate the way you were five years ago.”