My Sister-In-Law Is My Mate!?!

"Are you sure it would work?" asked the maid as she looked at Diana with a confused face. The woman was afraid that the man who was protecting the girl would shred her into pieces.

"What is there to be afraid of? I have mixed the sleeping pills in the food while cooking it. Everyone would be asleep by now. Amelia, George, Hazel, even the crown prince would be sleeping soundly. 

There is no way that they could be awake. All you have to do is to take a pillow and kill her husband. I will make sure that she will be the one to blame.

Both couples had a fight last night and then we all went to sleep. But when we woke up, Hazel was alone in her room while her husband was dead.

No one would even think of you when it comes to investigation since you are on holiday for a few days." Diana smirked, she had asked her personal maid to call this made especially because she was on leave for a week.

Even if maids were doubted there was no way that she would be the one to blame and the knights are proof that none of them went to the room of hazel.

The maid bit her lips. She had never thought that she would be able to kill someone. She did not want to do it, but she knew after knowing the plan, if she would not do it, then the mistress would kill her too.

She did not want to die so soon. She bowed her head as her eyes turned dark. She was looking deep in thought.

"If you complete this task, I will give all my gold and jewels I have. You can have your own villa and live the life of a rich person.

But if you did not accept then I still remember that you have a little daughter that still needs you.`` If the maid had doubts before, she was sure that she would not survive this calamity, even her daughter could be dragged too.

Her eyes flicked when she looked at the cold smirk of her mistress and took a deep breath. If that was what was needed then she would do it.

"I understand, my lady. I will try my best." she clenched her hands and replied solemenly breaking the triumph smile on the face of Diana.

"Very well, I will wait for your reply then." Diana nodded her head and the maid took another breath and bowed her head.

"Yes, my lady." with that she turned to the left. Her eyes were looking at the pillow that she was holding.

"One more thing." the maid halted in her steps and turned to look back at her master.

"Yes, my lady!" She looked at Dian with silver hopes that she would change her cruel plan of killing her own daughter. She still could not believe that a mother could be so cold hearted! After all, she was a mother too.

"Do not forget to take the secret passage for my room. Or else if you got caught then I would not be able to save you.`` Diana for once was happy that Hazel had taken her room.

The room of the count had a secret passage that could be used in case of emergency. That door had many openings. One of them opens in the underground prison, the other in the storeroom and the last one in the woods.

So that, if an attack happens they would have many places to run too.

"Yes, my lady. I remembered to take the path of the store room for now and then return to the woods after the task is done!" replied the maid with a solemn face even though her voice came out strained.

"Good, now leave before it becomes too late!" Diana waved her hands in the air as she asked Hazel to leave who had already taken a deep breath and left for the store room.

"Look what happened when an ant tried to crush the elephant. Now you will bear the consequences of your arrogance! Hmph!" Diana looked at her husband who was lost in the lala land. 

She looked at him with cold eyes as if contemplating whether to kill him or not.

Once, she loved this man, but now only hatred is left. She just wanted to get rid of him. If not for the position of a countess and her image, she would have left this man long ago.

She picked up the pillow and brought it closer to his face. 

Her eyes had darkened and filled with complex emotions but just as she brought it closer to the face of the sleeping man, it fell from her hands and tears started to fill her eyes.

Even after so much humiliation. She still could not kill the man she once left due to the lingering feelings in her heart.

She closed her eyes and clenched her hands into a fist with her nails dug deeper into her skin.

"You better pray that I will get rid of that wench tonight. Or I will make sure to kill you and her together next time.`` Her voice was full of pain and suffering as she turned and left the room to get some fresh air.

The maid walked with a candle in one hand and a pillow in another. The pillow was the one that was used by hazel to sit outside the room, it had been used and touched by hazel.

Even if they used the magical tower to investigate the matter. Its smell would only match hazel and her. 

And since she would not be in the palace, only Hazel would be left to blame.

She was impressed how her mistress had thought of everything while planning the murder. She just forgot one thing that the maid was not a murderer. She still did not have the courage to kill someone just to save herself and her family.

That was why she had decided, she would go to hazel and confess everything. Then she would ask her to punish herself but let her family live in a safe place.

With that thought, she took confident steps towards the room. As Diana has stated the room opened with the key she had given to her.

"Creak." The old and rusty door opened with some noise when she thought how she would wake up hazel when she had taken strong medicine pills.

But just when the door opened, her scared eyes met the cold golden eyes that were looking back at him furiously as if they would suck her soul.

It scared her so much that she took two steps back in fear.

"You! You!" She looked at the strong man whose face was no less than the monsters she had heard about in folktales.

Though his fair skin was more beautiful than the girls, his cold eyes and face that was shrouded with darkness was so cold that it felt like the air around him had been frozen.

"Who are you?" The cold voice was like poison in the air. The maid had started having trouble breathing. It was so cold that her whole body froze!

"Who.. who are you?" asked the maid with all the strength she had. She embedded her strength and shouted at the man with full force but even his expressions did not change! He just tilted his head and looked at her coldly as a smirk formed on his face like the face of a beast that had seen his prey and was going to devour it.

"I am your death if you will not tell me who you are and what you are doing here!" 

"Thud" was the last blow that she could bear. The woman fell on the floor with a strong thud sound and crawled back.

The man crouched as he looked straight into her eyes, her pupils dilated and her lips parted but not a single sound came out. She was not even able to shout now. She was getting completely limp when he heard her again,

"Looks like you do not want to live anymore. I am asking you one last time. Who are you and what are you doing here?" That was the last the maid could bear. She covered her face with her hand as she threw the pillow away.

"I.. I meant no harm. I am here to help lady Hazel." The man smirked as if he had heard a joke. The woman who was not even able to stand properly would help his wife that had faced a beast without an ounce of fear in her eyes!

"I am here to tell lady hazel the truth. Her mother had asked me to kill her but I am here to ask for forgiveness and warn her about her mother's plan that she wanted her to accuse her of her husband's death!!"