Chapter 537: JASMINE’S FAREWELL
"Have you heard the news?" Nanny Nia asked as she folded up little of Jasmine’s belongings inside the box.
Jasmine whose mind had been as usual far edged away, barely heard Nanny Nia.
A few days before they went visiting the castle and yet here she was, still in anguish, mourning the loss of her child.
She didn’t want to get over it.
Mainly because she was worried that she would forget she ever carried the child.
So she held unto the memory fervently.
That way she didn’t have to let go.
"Jasmine?" Nanny Nia said.
Jasmine jerked, crashing back to reality.
"Yes?" She answered quickly and tensed.
Nannh Nia smiled weakly and then finished folding the dress she held and picked another one.
"You’re thinking again." Nanny Nia remarked gently.
Jasmine gave a weak smile. "I’m fine. What were you saying?"
Nanny Nia looked at her for a while and then sighed before speaking. "I was asking if you had heard the new news?"
Jasmine frowned. "What news?"
"Well." Nanny Nia cleared her throat. "There were rumors at first but now is been confirmed. The Queen’s grand daughter has returned."
"Returned? Princess Belle was missing?" Jasmine asked.
"Gods no." Nanny Nia replied sharply. "Not that impudent little brat. I helped train her for a year and I couldn’t control her. Quit in a year. Not her. The Queen had a missing daughter."
"Yes I heard. She told me when she came to the pack". Jasmine mumbled.
"The Queen herself told you?" A surprised Nanny Nia asked in disbelief.
Jasmine nodded. "Yes she did.
"Wow. When I met her. She was closed off and for as long as I can remember she hated speaking on it. I’m surprised she opened up to you about it." Nanny Nia gave in. "Well her daughter who had been missing allegedly had a daughter. The daughter returned and now the Queen has taken her in."
"Really?" Jasmine asked forgetting her grief and being happy for the Queen. "That’s beautiful..What about her daughter?"
Nanny Nia shrugged. "Not much is said on that. But I think she died."
Jasmine sighed. "That’s sad. Losing a child. After all these years."
"Of course it is. And I’m sure you can relate." Nanny Nia said gently rubbing her shoulders.
Jasmine said nothing.
"Well!" Nannh Nia said returning to her folding. "There is going to be an official party announcing the princess. And it collides with when we go. How beautiful."
Jasmine was delighted for the Queen.
She had been so attracted to the Queen. Felt a pull to her she had never experienced and knowing she went through such sorrow made Jasmine sad.
She was a good and kind woman.
Not what she had expected of the Queen.
It pleased her to know that the Queen had requested to see her.
Whether she was going to be sentenced for the false accusation of her assassinating Xaden, she had no idea.
She simply wanted to leave the pack and not come back.
"I’m quite certain that you would love it and help you clear your mind." Nanny Nia said.
Jasmine said nothing as she gently rubbed her hand on the partly broken emerald pendant on her neck.
She had never taken it off and was the only gift.
The one true possession she had that belonged to her mother.
Sometimes she wondered if it was a gift from her father Bale or a gift from her mother’s family.
Either ways it was her peace.
The one thing she held fervently to at night when she had felt lonely all those years growing up and now that she had nightmares since she lost the baby.
Her finger gently rubbed on the part where the emerald had broken off and then very gently put it back in her chest.
It was well hidden inside her bosom.
"The change of environment will do you good." Nanny Nia assured her. "You would love the Royal castle. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before."
Jasmine smiled weakly.
There was a knock at the door and Fiona came in.
"How is the packing." Fiona asked excitedly jumping on the bed.
"We’re almost done." Nanny Nia said.
"Are you coming along?" Jasmine asked hopefully.
"No unfortunately I’m not." Fiona said fucking Jasmine’s red curls behind her ears. "But I would be here waiting for you when you return."
Jasmine nodded weakly.
She didn’t even know what her life had in shock for her.
The truth was that she hated this pack.
It harbored memories that she never wanted to remember.
She was suffocated and overwhelmed by them.
So the truth was she didn’t want to return.
She sighed to herself as she gently nibbled at her fingertips.
"Is Anna coming along?" Jasmine asked worried.
"Unfortunately she is." Fiona reluctantly replied. "But I know that Nanny Nia is there in case you need anything. I’m sure she would stand by you."
"I’m tired of letting everyone fight my battles." Jasmine said quietly.
Since her child’s death and the gruesome betrayal she had encountered, she found herself growing in anger.
Resilience that she had never known even existed within her.
And she wanted to fight.
"Good for you." Fiona applauded. "I wish I would be there when that finally happens and Anna is the vessel for your frustration."
"When were you going to tell me about you and Erik?" Jasmine asked puzzled.
"Because there is nothing to tell." Fiona wove her hand off.
"You told Anna that you are the one he is in love with. There is a LOT to tell there." Jasmine insisted.
"Believe me there is none. It was a mistake. And should have never happened. Anna is his mate which is a cruel twist of fate. That bitch gets away with everything I could never understand." Fiona said irritated. "But Erik is a fool. He hid it from me. A coward. And so I closed that Chapter. It’s over Jamsine."
Jasmine pressed her lips.
Why was love so cruel?