Reborn As A Beast Queen with Too Many Husbands to Pet novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148 The Price of Truth

Annelise choked.

She had never met a man like this before.

Was this some kind of domineering CEO type

Because he liked her, even her child had to be protected.

No did Riven actually like her?

More likely, he just believed that since they had mated, a bond was inevitable.

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So Annelise voiced what was on her mind. “Riven, if that heat incident had never happened. would you still want to become my mate?”

Riven answered with unexpected calm and maturity, “The past is a closed book. Don’t talk to me about ‘if. There is no ‘if. The fact is, you and I mated. After that, I watched you. I watched how you handled people, how you acted in the tribe. I decided you were worthy of being my matriarch. That’s why I insisted you bond with me.”

Huh? Wait-what?

So Riven had actually observed her and decided she was a decent person before agreeing to the bond.

It wasn’t just because of that mating that never actually happened.

“Then, Riven, if you’d decided I wasn’t a good person, you wouldn’t have brought up the mating at all, right? Actually, let me tell you—”

Annelise wanted to confess all her flaws.

If Riven thought she was unacceptable, he could just leave.

But before she could finish, Riven spoke first. “If I’d decided you were rotten, I would’ve crushed your head on the spot and killed you. I don’t allow a female who’s mated with me to be garbage. If my fate’s bad, then everyone gets a bad fate together.”

Uh…

Annelise glanced down at how far she was from the ground.

They were very high up.

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If she told the truth now, would Riven just let go and let her fall to her death?

Right then, Riven asked. “What were you about o say?”

Annelise swallowed hard. “Nothing. You heard wrong. I wasn’t going to say anything.”

It was better to let him realize later that she hadn’t actually mated with him.

This was not the time to provoke him.

But Riven kept pressing. “What was it?”

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“Oh, nothing! Look-fly over there, quick. The grass is moving. That’s probably the shaman.”

Annelise believed the shaman had chosen the most dangerous escape route along the cliff face.

It was too steep for most beasts to traverse.

Even with Riven carrying her, landing there to capture the shaman would be difficult.

As they approached, both of them saw it clearly the thing wriggling ahead really was the shaman.

Riven asked, “Matriarch, how do you want to catch her?”

Annelise wanted to protest that she was not his matriarch.

But the situation was urgent, so she said, “Take me closer. Don’t land. I’ll scatter powder from above.”

She pulled a large cloth bundle from her chest.

The moment she opened it, a sharp, choking stench spread through the air.

It was antidote herbs from the mountain, ground into dry powder and mixed with coarse sulfur.

Annelise had discovered a small sulfur deposit. The tribe didn’t understand its use, and shifters were naturally resistant to insects, so no one thought it mattered.

But after she processed it, the effect was far stronger than realgar.

The shaman could control snakes, which meant she was likely a snake herself.

Annelise had asked everyone in the tribe, but they all said the shaman was elusive and mysterious. No one knew her true form.

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Still, among all the houses, only the shaman’s had unusually thick walls and intense warmth inside.

That made sense if she was a snake trying to avoid hibernation.

After all, the shaman still had to come out in winter to pray for the tribe.

As a large cloud of powder rained down from above, the shaman’s body and head began to burn.

The harsh smell made her sneeze and cry uncontrollably.

She clung to the steep cliff, but her hands burned so badly she couldn’t grip the rock.

In the end, she wrapped her snake tail around a broken branch, barely hanging onto the cliff face.

Annelise told Riven to move closer. “Right there. I’m aiming for her head.”

The shaman roared, “You’re vicious!”

Annelise laughed and scattered powder not only over her head, but straight into her mouth.

Every bit of aim the High Priest had taught her was put to use.

“Come on, eat your sulfur. Next, I’m going for your eyes.”

“Mmph! Ugh!” The shaman twisted her head and couldn’t stop coughing.

She tried to shout that her eyes burned, but every time she opened her mouth, she swallowed another mouthful.

Meanwhile, Annelise laughed like a proper villain.

Even Riven couldn’t help laughing. He found Annelise strangely adorable.

At last, the shaman couldn’t take it anymore. She let go and rolled down the cliff, her snake tail and body curling together as she tumbled.

She finally crashed onto a flat ledge halfway down the mountain.

Riven asked Annelise, “What would you have done without me flying you here?”

“I had other options. I could’ve found someone else in the tribe who could fly.”

Riven couldn’t help saying, “Then it’s a good thing you had me.”

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They landed on the mid-mountain ledge. Annelise crouched, grabbed the shaman by the hair, yanked her head up, and said coldly, “Tell me what I am, and I’ll let

you go.”

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