The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Crystal's POV:

A guilty look flashed across Adela's face before she assumed her usual timid demeanor. Only a fool would fall for her act.

The problem was that I still had no idea who was the mastermind behind Adela's evil plan. It seemed that I had no choice but to wait for the true perpetrator to show up. "What is it that you know?" Adela asked warily.

I shrugged noncommittally. "Come to me when you finally figure it out." I turned and made to leave, not wanting to waste any more of my time on the duplicitous she-wolf.

"No! You can't leave without making yourself clear!" Adela grabbed my arm and pulled me back. She looked some deranged harridan as she demanded that I reveal what I knew.

"I have nothing else to say." I was getting increasingly annoyed. I never wanted to talk to her in the first place.

Adela's grip tightened around my wrist, so much so that it actually hurt. She was sporting a vicious expression as she spat out, "Tell me what happened between you and the king! What do you know?"

I pried my hand out of her hold, releasing my fingers one by one. "No comment," I taunted.

"Mark my words, Crystal. Once I am queen, I will make sure that your days are miserable for the rest of your life!"

from rage by the time

shook her off again, but she

go until you tell me what you

so much time in your hands, then I suggest that you read more books and learn something. Stop making

struggled harder against Adela's grasp. I didn't want anyone to see us arguing like this. If Rufus caught wind of it, he would only make things

and I'll cry," Adela threatened, her voice already sounding

it! This bitch was

speechless and dumbfounded. I had

in. I shook her off once more and said, "If you want to cry, then just cry. Do you

her teeth, her eyes already turning red.

it, she had thrown herself backward into the pond, making it

sank into the water until only her head was above the

first instinct was

save her, but then something occurred to me. Adela had told both Rufus and Laura, right to their faces, that she was good at swimming. I eyed the pond and figured that it was no more than four feet deep. I took a

appeared and jumped into the