infodatos Chapter 355: Mysterious Helper
Chapter 355: Mysterious Helper
Chapter 355: Mysterious HelperThe rain continued to pour in torrents as the maids rushed to close all the windows in Arabella’s study at the mansion.
Once all the windows are safely shut tight, the maids did their supposed task.
When they were done, Arabella made all of them leave except for Renee.
"Renee, you look tense. Did something happen," Arabella maintained her mask of a smile despite her worries.
She was aching to ask a ton of questions and scold Renee but did her best to remain calm.
She hoped Alwin was able to prevent Renee’s attempt to poison Queen Fatima.
"I... Uhm, Your Majesty, I would like to quit as your maid from today onwards," Renee informed now that she had the chance to speak. She didn’t delay any longer since she needed to escape in case someone finds out it was her who poisoned Fatima.
"It seems you have decided to continue with your revenge.
Why did you decide to push through with it?
Did something happen while you were trying to verify if they were working together?"
Arabella wanted to know what it was exactly that Renee learned that made her so furious.
It must have been quite heavy for Renee to take immediate action despite Arabella’s former warning.
"Yes, Your Majesty. It’s because..."
Renee’s hands balled into fists.
"I heard Fatima talking about it with her most trusted maid.
I learned that Fatima was never my friend.
She only approached me so she could take my place. She knew my family would make me Queen.
Thus, she pretended to befriend me since she wanted to be the Queen of Zygos.
She ruined my relationship with Chester and made me go through all that to achieve her goal," Renee explained.
’She was able to get near Fatima without getting noticed?
How did she manage to do it?
Did she really meet Marcus already?
If that was the case, did Marcus agree to work with her?
What would be his goal?
Moreover, I thought Alwin assigned someone to watch Renee,’ Arabella was confused.
Renee said that Fatima remembered Evelyn after she kept seeing Arabella.
Fatima believed Arabella was probably as naive as Evelyn and would be easy to fool.
Thus, Fatima wanted to approach Arabella and try to use her too.
However, she thought it would be too suspicious if she approaches the daughter of someone her husband once chased.
Especially, since her husband was already too interested in Arabella.
Fatima was irked by it but could not do anything about it since Chester had long been such a philanderer who gets attracted to all sorts of women.
It was then that Fatima began reminiscing about Evelyn who, to the former had been an easy target.
Fatima was from the Ravenhill’s Dukedom, once the second most powerful dukedom in Zygos, after the Leonharts.
Fatima mocked Evelyn for believing she approached for friendship when their families had long been at each other’s throats, grappling for more power, and trying to step over the other.
Evelyn’s pieces of jewelry Renee saw on Fatima were indeed stolen by her to make Chester furious at Evelyn.
Fatima was the one who made Chester think Evelyn was cheating on him.
Evelyn’s death was also set up by Fatima.
This was why Fatima visited Evelyn just a few days before Chester’s visit.
Fatima made it look like Evelyn was cheating when she knew Chester would visit.
It was so his pride would be hurt and he would hate Evelyn even more, hurt her, and push Evelyn to ask for a divorce or make her family do so.
However, out of fury, Chester killed Evelyn thinking that she did cheat while saying she was recuperating due to the abortion.
Chester did not know it was set up by Fatima.
But later on, when Chester realized Fatima was trying to be the Queen and had set up everything, instead of standing up for his wife, he decided to work with Fatima to stop the Leonharts’ control over him.
He felt guilty for his supposed child that he had forced to get aborted, mistaking that it was from someone else.
But he thought it was for the best since the Leonharts would only use the child to control him.
Likewise, Chester felt bad he killed Evelyn due to a misunderstanding, but her death was also merely good riddance for him.
Chester and Fatima then made a deal. He would make her the Queen of Zygos if she helped him so he would be free of Leonhart’s control.
Fatima agreed and did her part since she was planning to do it anyway for Ravenhill to become the most powerful dukedom in Zygos instead of Leonhart.
Fatima then became Queen, Chester got free from the Leonharts, and Ravenhill became the most powerful dukedom in Zygos.
But Renee couldn’t care less about their reasons.
What was important was she went through so much suffering as Evelyn due to them.
Thus, Renee wanted them to get a "little" taste of suffering too and die as well.
Arabella tried to calm Renee first before asking how she was able to get close to Fatima and her maid unnoticed.
After all, from what she saw in Renee’s mind, she was just a few steps away from Fatima, but no one seemed to have noticed her.
[What should I do?
That mysterious person told me not to tell anyone about him.
Ah, I don’t know him anyway.
I don’t even know his name.
There’s nothing I could talk about him aside from the fact that he suddenly appeared and helped me infiltrate unnoticed...
Hmm...
What was I thinking about again?]
"Please pardon me, Your Majesty, did you ask me something?" Renee inquired.
’Huh?
Why would she ask me that?
Was she not listening to me?
No, she was about to speak about her mysterious helper but suddenly got silent instead.’
Arabella almost gasped after seeing the identity of the Mysterious Helper. She did her best to remain calm as various hypotheses formed in her mind.
After all, the image and memory of that person suddenly vanished from Renee’s mind. This was the first time something like this happened.