Reborn As A Beast Queen with Too Many Husbands to Pet novel Chapter 33

Chapter 33 The Truth Beneath the Red-Clay Roof

“When a female has no beast form, it’s the male’s duty to protect her. At the same time, a female’s spirit energy can suppress a male’s madness and prevent him from dying. That kind of bond doesn’t necessarily mean love. Besides, Holly and I… we really were familiar with each other. Whether there were feelings or not just wasn’t that important.”

What mattered was this: Evan couldn’t fit into the new atmosphere Annelise brought with her, no matter how hard he tried.

Staying here would only make him an eyesore.

On the final day of his leg treatment, Holly was supposed to come pick Evan up.

Annelise assumed the female would arrive early, so she waited in the courtyard, studying herbs as she kept an eye out.

But night fell, and only then did Holly appear.

She hesitated before saying, “Something came up. I was delayed.”

Annelise sensed something was off.

After Annelise finished treating Holly’s father, Holly hadn’t shown up for three days straight.

That didn’t look like the behavior of someone who truly cared about Evan.

Today, she had come especially late, which only deepened Annelise’s unease.

“What happened?” Annelise asked.

“Hunting matters…”

Evan didn’t think much of it. He didn’t even bring a bag when he left. He just walked slowly.

Annelise stood there and watched them go.

She watched until they disappeared into the distance.

Then she said, “Rokky, come with me on a night patrol.”

Rokky blinked in surprise and pointed at himself. “M-Me?”

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“Yes, you. Hudson and Adrian get hotheaded too easily. They’d make a fuss and ruin the patrol.”

A so-called night patrol was really sneaking around and climbing onto other people’s rooftops.

Rokky’s movement, strength, and speed were among the best of all shifters.

With Rokky helping her spy, the chance of being discovered would be extremely low.

Rokky, ever quiet, simply nodded..

As long as he could help the matriarch, that was enough.

At midnight, when everyone else was asleep, Annelise and Rokky slipped out.

After several days, Annelise already knew which part of the eastern side of the tribe Holly lived in.

Holly had mentioned before that the house with a thick layer of red clay on the roof was hers.

Sure enough, they found it.

Annelise turned back and whispered, “Rokky, lift me up. Gently. Don’t let them notice.”

Rokky nodded. He wrapped an arm around her waist, tightened his core, and leapt up onto the red-clay roof. When his feet landed, they made no more sound than a cat’s paws.

Annelise lifted a tile and peered inside.

As expected, Holly wasn’t asleep. She was pacing inside the room, surrounded by her mates.

One mate said, “Ms. Zane, if this really won’t work, you should just be honest with Clara. Say you can’t do it.”

Another said, “But Ms. Zane is the elder’s daughter. The chief, the elders, and the shaman are united as one. If the chief is humiliated, the elders have to step in. Ms. Zane can’t avoid this. If that peacock had refused to come, none of this would be happening.”

Holly said, “Annelise has changed for the better. I really thought Evan wouldn’t come. But… in the end, I was the one who went looking for him. I can’t blame him.”

One of her mates asked, “Then what do we do now? Clara told you to bring Evan back, bond with him, then use the matriarch’s spirit energy to control him and frame Annelise. If you

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don’t do it, does that mean the elder and the chief fall out completely? Won’t things get difficult later?”

At that moment, Evan shoved the door

open.

“Holly, so this is why you came looking for me? To frame someone else?”

Inside, Holly’s mates rushed forward and blocked Evan.

Holly hadn’t bonded with Evan yet. She had only brought him back, and that alone had been troubling her.

Worse still, she had brought him back around dinner time.

They were afraid Evan had overheard everything and might hurt Holly.

Evan was visibly shaken. “So you wanted to hurt Annelise. How could you hurt Annelise? She cured your father. How could you

frame her…”

Her mates dragged Evan inside and slammed the door shut to keep his voice from carrying. Even though the eastern area was home only to the elders and the shaman, it still wouldn’t be good if anyone heard.

Evan struggled for a moment, but he was only a peacock. He couldn’t match the strength of multiple shifters.

Holly said, “Calm down first, Evan. We’ve known each other since we were young. I haven’t even decided whether I’ll go through with this.”

She said that Annelise used to be a scoundrel who beat her mates every day.

If someone like that was being framed by Clara, Holly didn’t feel like she was doing something unforgivable.

Back when the sacrifice happened, the elders and the shaman hadn’t needed to step personally.

So Holly hadn’t known that Annelise was already different from before.

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This time, when she went to Annelise’s door and asked for Evan, she had forced herself to do it, thinking that if a drunk Annelise answered, she would strike immediately.

But nothing had turned out that way.

“Who knew Annelise would change?” Holly said bitterly. “After she stopped drinking, she not

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only cured my father, but everything she said and did was different from before. I thought you wouldn’t follow me back. I was actually relieved…”

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