Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 274: The Clumsy Cute Maid

"Y-Your Majesty!" Meredith panicked. She quickly pushed herself away from the Beast King, scared that she had offended him because of her clumsiness. She bowed in a flustered manner and said, "Pardon me, Your Majesty. I-I was busy cleaning the carpet, I-I didn’t know that you’re here already!"

Meredith’s ears and face were red, and for a second when Meredith was close to him, he could smell the faint scent of wild berries. Gale didn’t have any opinion yet about this female human, and honestly, he didn’t care much because he was busy thinking about how to find Matoa and make Swan happy about her pregnancy.

But he had one question in mind to her;

"Didn’t the guards tell the servants about this room? I will only use it for now, so I can sleep on the same floor with my wife."

"Y-yes, Your Majesty. H-Her Majesty Queen Swan told me that I should clean this room as well. I-I know that you’ll use this room, so I’ve been trying my best to keep it s-spotless..." Meredith replied.

"My wife told you to clean this room? My room?" Gale frowned. "Does she know that I’ll stay here?"

"Y-yes..."

Gale’s brows creased even deeper. He noticed that Swan was actually a very jealous woman. She might not show it, but she would never let a female servant help Gale in the throne room. It was always a male servant or just the guard.

Gale found her jealousy and possessiveness to be very cute and endearing, so he didn’t say anything and simply enjoyed the feeling of being wanted by his wife. novelbuddy.cσ๓

Hence, he found it strange that Swan would allow a maid—especially a female human— to clean his room, especially when she knew that he would use it.

He peered at Meredith behind the blindfold, thinking this woman might be lying. But then realized there was no good reason why she should lie over this.

’Is she losing her feelings for me? Was my punishment too harsh on her, so she decided to just let go of her possessiveness?’ Gale might look calm, but he was panicking inside. ’No, no, calm down, Gale. Swan will never lose her feelings for you over this small punishment. It’s only been four days. She probably thinks there’s no reason to be so on guard against this female human, right?’

Gale tried to convince himself through his sea of doubts. He looked around the room and said, "This place is clean enough. You can leave now."

Meredith quickly gathered all her cleaning tools, bowed for the last time, and rushed out of the room. However, the moment she scurried out of the door, she accidentally tripped and fell right in front of the Beast King.

"Uuuh... aw..." Meredith grimaced in pain as her head hit the floor, but it didn’t take long for her to get up again, "I-I’m sorry, Y-your Majesty, I get a little clumsy when I’m nervous. I-I will do my best not to trip anymore!"

"Hm. Go now," Gale replied calmly.

Meredith finally bowed for the last time and left the room. Gale slammed the door shut and sat on the bed. He took off his blindfold and stared at the ceiling with his ruby-colored pupils.

As usual, his mind was preoccupied with his wife. He had no fear of his enemies, but the idea of Swan losing her love for him was more fearsome than any enemies he ever faced.

Gale gritted his teeth.

He was torn between keeping his pride, so Swan would learn that she made a mistake and needed to be punished for it, or tossing his pride aside and going to their marital bedroom to cuddle like usual, as if there was nothing wrong between them.

"Urgh, fine! Once they’ve found Matoa and let him diagnose her pregnancy, I will let go of this whole thing and we can start anew," Gale grumbled as he knew he had to do something before this gnawing feeling in his heart drove him crazy.

He was still angry at Swan for betraying him by exchanging letters with Rock. He still wanted to hunt that bastard down and kill him for all the humiliation Gale felt.

At the same time, he had such a soft spot for his wife that he couldn’t stay mad at her for a long time.

’Just one more week, Gale,’ Gale told himself. He had gotten the report from the scouts about how they were finally able to track Matoa down, but it was not easy to bring him to the castle as he always had 1001 reasons not to.

’Should I just leave the castle and find him myself? But what about Swan and our cub? I am supposed to stay in the den in case there will be a danger lurking around.’

In the end, he decided to wait for the good news and endure these lonely days without Swan by his side.

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Meanwhile, Jade in Meredith’s body lost all of her cuteness and clumsiness once she was out of the room. He rubbed her forehead and cursed Gale for not helping her.

’Obviously, he could’ve just caught me before I fell. Why would he let her fall just like that? Does he not have a sense of chivalry for the females?!’ Jade complained, but she also felt happy deep down, since that was the first time in her life she could be that close with Gale.

Usually, Gale would always keep his distance from her and would show his rejection when Jade tried to ease him up.

’No wonder those bitches like to be embraced by him. His chest is so warm and feels safe. I want to be embraced by him too,’ Jade smirked.

That smirk didn’t last long as she remembered some gossip about Swan’s pregnancy, and how everyone was waiting for Matoa, the miracle doctor to come and check on her pregnancy.

’If that old bastard confirms her pregnancy, then it will be the end of me. There is no way Gale would pick another woman other than his pregnant wife,’ Jade thought. ’I have to move faster. I have to do something and seduce Gale to kiss—or even better, to have sex with me before it’s too late.’