Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 227: The Mute Bunny

Another week had passed since Lady Jade got executed by Gale himself. Her decaying head was still in the middle of the city square and would stay on that stake forever.

All of her belongings had been destroyed, and all the servants who worked closely with her had either been demoted or moved to work elsewhere.

As for the bunny maid who was the main collaborator with Jade...

Alice left her shed at dawn, as she wanted to have something to eat.

The cold didn’t bother her as her race was that of a snow bunny or arctic hare. But getting locked in such a cold shed with little to no food given to her was more than enough to drive her crazy.

Alice breezed her way through to the kitchen and saw the other maids chit-chatting or telling jokes to each other as they had their breakfast together.

They all seemed to be jolly over the peaceful days in the Kingdom of Beastman until they saw Alice.

The moment Alice walked in, everyone stole a glance at her, and went quiet for a moment, before one of them started chatting again.

Alice gritted her teeth. It had been a month ever since she was punished and forced to be mute. Everyone in the castle treated her as if she didn’t exist, and they would ignore her even if she tried to strike up a conversation.

’This is so unfair. Who would’ve thought that bitch Swan can be so cruel?’ Alice cursed in her heart. ’This is no better than death when I am treated like a ghost even though I’m still alive and standing!’

Alice hurled all the insults she could think towards Swan in her heart but dared say nothing as she was just a mute right now. She tried to speak to the other servants once, but they ignored her. One of them even dared to report it to Swan, resulting in her food ration getting cut in half for the entire day as a punishment.

Yes, a simple ’hi’ would make her only eat once a day as a punishment!

Thus, Alice decided to just grab her plate, put some food in it, and return to her shed at the corner of the castle ground. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

The servants waited until Alice finally left the kitchen, and they all made a collective sigh once she did.

"Honestly, I don’t know if I should pity her," one maid said. "Alice has been proven to be colluding with the late Lady Jade to kill Lady Long. She also confessed that they planned to kill our Queen after they were done with Lady Long. Do you think that kind of traitor deserves pity?"

"Truthfully, I think Her Majesty is too soft on her! She should’ve executed her just like how His Majesty executed Lady Jade!" another maid added. "This is hardly a punishment. She can still eat whatever she likes most of the time and is free to roam around the castle. She just can’t talk!"

The other servants agreed with her, but mostly because they believed that their Beast King would never make a wrong decision, and their new Queen was an important entity by his side.

"Can you imagine what would happen if Her Majesty Queen Swan died due to poisoning? What do you think will happen to His Majesty?"

The servants began imagining the worst scenario possible. They knew that His Majesty was deeply in love with the Queen, and if she died, then he would probably go into the worst rampage imaginable and kill everyone in this kingdom.

They collectively guessed that all beastmen would perish when their Queen perished as well because His Majesty would kill them all before trying to kill himself, which was impossible since he was immortal.

The servants shuddered and darted their eyes towards the cat maids, "W-what about Her Majesty right now? She is doing well, right?"

Myra and Maya looked at each other and nodded, though they weren’t sure if it was the right response.

The thing was... Princess Swan wasn’t in good health these days.

She always had morning sickness, and the cat maids were unsure of what was happening.

But since their Princess told them to hide this from everyone, including the Beast King, they decided to stay quiet.

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Meanwhile, Swan was stuck in the bathroom, washing her mouth before retching repeatedly over and over. Again, the morning sickness had been persistent for the past couple of weeks, and Swan was still unsure what caused it.

She deliberately hid it from Gale, by acting like she was sleepy and the cold bothered her so much that she preferred to stay huddled under the blanket in the morning.

She would wait until Gale left the bedroom before rushing to the bathroom and doing her morning sickness routine.

"Oh Goddess, what is happening to me?" Swan grew wary of her condition. She might be frail, but she wasn’t THIS frail before, especially now that she had been eating very well and always had a warm blanket and fireplace to fight off the cold in winter.

"Could it be that I caught some mysterious illness?" Swan pondered, but she shook her head as she didn’t want to think too much of it. "No, maybe this sickness will end by the time winter ends. Two more weeks before spring comes, I should be able to handle this without making Gale worry."

Trying to think positively, Swan walked out of the bathroom with her crutches and saw the cat maids were already standing at the door with a basin of warm water and her breakfast ready.

The cat maids looked at her with worry, "Princess, is it really okay to continue like this? What if it’s a serious illness?"

"It’s not a serious illness," Swan smiled. "I think I just get sick because of the cold. It should heal when spring comes around."

The cat maids helped their Princess to sit at the table and then served her breakfast.

Myra poured her a cup of ginger tea as usual and asked, "Princess, I heard from a maid who once saw a pregnant female human, that humans have different signs of pregnancy compared to us, beastmen. Could it be that you are..."