Reborn As A Beast Queen with Too Many Husbands to Pet novel Chapter 188

Chapter 188 The High Priest’s Teasing

“Alright, alright. So you finally confessed to my little sweetheart, huh, Riven?

“You’re into her. She’s into you.

“Sounds like you’re about to lock that in for real.”

Finished

Riven looked away from the High Priest, keeping his tone sharp but proud. “I’ve always been her mate.”

Annelise cleared her throat hard, yanking their attention back to her.

She spoke up. “I’m not going anywhere alone. And what matters right now is asking every household if their kids ever got anything from that shaman. Candy. Trinkets. Whatever.”

She explained the shaman had gained favor with the kids.

Annelise had known from the start how easy it was to fool them.

The shaman had clearly planned it all out. Using the kids to spread chaos and tear the tribe apart.

So now, they had to go through every single one. No skipping. No hiding.

“Mr. Allen, is there any chance that new shaman can breathe fire?”

The High Priest gave her a weird look.

“Breathe fire? Riven, what do you think?”

Riven looked just as confused. “I can light up my body, sure. But breathing fire? No way. Not our thing.”

The High Priest jumped back in. “That shaman they stuck in as a stand-in? They’re a total lightweight.

“And believe me, I’ve been around long enough to see a dozen shamans come and go. Not one of them ever breathed fire.

“We’re not exa

Annelise paused.

a high-ranking tribe. Even during the merges, there weren’t a lot of big talents.”

The whole point was to rattle the kids. Make them so nervous they’d spill everything.

It wasn’t nice, but it worked.

If one of them forgot to mention something, and another shifter paid the price for it, that was on her.

Then she smacked herself in the head. “Forget it. I’ll do myself. Mr. Allen, give me a bottle of booze. Riven, get me a torch. I’ll handle the fire show.”

She reminded herself again that these shifters weren’t gniuses. The kids? Even worse.

She shook her head. For a second, she’d treated them like they were normal humans from her old world.

The High Priest trusted her completely.

They moved fast.

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Chapter 188 The High Priest’s Teasing

By the time they got back to the main clearing, the sky had gone full black.

Finished

Everyone who hadn’t caught the virus had been rounded up. Under the High Priest’s orders, they’d all been given the cowpox serum.

Each kid was pinned in place by a parent or a guardian.

All of them echoed the same line. “We already told you everything! Our kids swore it’s the truth!

“Besides that open area with all the traps, the trail that leads up into the woods-she got the kids to bury more stuff there too!”

Annelise squinted. She used to be a kid.

And she knew very well, even if she wanted to be honest she might’ve still kept something to herself out of fear.

She took the torch from Riven. The second the kids sawit, a few of them started to shrink back.

She raised her voice. “Kids who told the truth? You’re gonna sleep easy tonight.

“But the ones who didn’t? The Fire Lady’s coming for you.”

Then she added, “You don’t know who the Fire Lady is?

She didn’t either.

But that didn’t matter.

She grabbed the liquor bottle, stepped up to the torch, and took a deep swig.

She sprayed the alcohol hard and fast across the flame. massive plume of fire burst out with a loud rush, lighting up the dark. The flames roared up in a wide arc

Every kid stood frozen. A couple of them were already drying.

Annelise narrowed her

eyes. Perfect.

One kid shot a hand into the air.

“Annelise! I just remembered! She told me to bury more traps near our safehouse!”

Another kid popped up right after. “Me too! I didn’t want to say it before, ’cause that spot’s so sacred! I’m sorry, Mom! Am I gonna get taken by the Fire Lady now!”

Annelise shot a look at the High Priest.

See? she thought,

She turned back and dropped her tone. “Every single one of you. Go tell the High Priest exactly where. Don’t leave anything out.”

The grown-ups looked nervous. Some of them were starting to wonder if this Fire Lady might be real.

And after Annelise’s vaccine plan worked-since none of the kids dropped dead-they trusted her more

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Sal,

M

Chapter 188 The High Priest’s Teasing

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