Her Unwanted Mate On The Throne

#Chapter 9 The Blame

"What the fuck happened?" William stormed into their room and brought all of his anger with him. It'd been a long time since she had seen him that angry. The sight alone made her insides want to cower away from him like she used to—but she stood tall. Doris had only just gotten their baby back to sleep when he arrived, only for William to wake him again and set him screaming. William crossed the room and took Alec from her grasp as if she was the one that had done that. He eyed her as if she was an intruder in their own room and it sent a ping of hurt through her heart.

"The... the maid drugged me and took the baby." Doris rubbed her temples. Her head still ached from whatever drugs she had put in her drink. "But Cordelia woke me and I got to him before she was able to do anything—"
"How could you let someone near our child like that?" He shouted over Alec's screams. Did he realize that he was the one causing his distress? "I told you that I don't want any servants near our baby and you let her in here!"

"William —" Doris was stunned at his reaction. He used to be furious that someone would dare do something to her but now it was like he didn't care that she was drugged. He only saw her at fault for something she couldn't control. "She came in to drop off lunch and poisoned my food. I told her to leave—"

"You shouldn't have even let her through the door! If your wolf didn't wake you, she could have killed him!" Doris took a deep breath. She understood his anger, but she didn't understand why he was blaming her. " I am not to blame for this, William. I told her to leave and she drugged me. You know that I haven't let any of the servants touch our baby since he was born."

William started to rock the baby back to sleep. He didn't take his eyes from his little face. "I just think you need to pay attention more and be more responsible. I told you that I didn't want anyone else watching the baby."
"And I told you that she wasn't watching the baby! She took him from me when she knocked me unconscious with the drugs! I never let anyone touch our baby unless it was Beth and Beth would protect him with her life!"

"I'm sure she would until someone offered her a nice price on his head!" William hissed. Doris took a small step back away from him in shock.

"How could you even say that? Beth would never do that to us—to him. She doesn't care about money over family, she never has."

just looked at her. She raised her chin slightly as if she was daring him to doubt her. He only

me everything

I asked her to leave. Something about her set off alarms in my head soI got up to get her out but it was too late. She drugged my food and I fell before I could stop her. Cordelia forced me awake and I found her out in one of the old sheds behind the palace. She told me that some man offered

took another breath and continued. "She said she killed the real maid named Penelope and took her place just to get to our baby. I don't know how long exactly she has been here, but she must have

Everyone else trusted her."

didn't kill her." William

took our baby—" "Because I wanted to fucking kill her! " He growled. Doris sat on the edge of the

Why would you take him to all your

time to yourself. You need more sleep or whatever it is that keeps you up." William grumbled. He barely even looked at her and it made her realize that he truly did blame her for this. "You don't trust me to watch our own baby?" Doris asked in a small

now I will watch him. You can take care of him at night when

and ask him why he was treating her like the villain. Perhaps she should have kept the woman alive just so he

William for blaming her instead of comforting her. She did everything she could and saved their baby. She curled her hands in her