Chapter Hundred

Maya's POV

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The maids gossiped so freely, and every word they said painted a clearer picture of the tangled web within the palace. It was more than I ever expected to discover on my first day, and I found myself eager for more.

One of the maids, who had been whispering with the others, confirmed the rumors I had heard from Alpha Ethan. "Alpha Orion doesn't plan on marrying Anita," one of them said with a sneer. "All she is to him is a source of pleasure and, maybe, an heir. If she weren’t the only one who could give him a child, she would have been thrown out long ago.”

Another maid chimed in, bitterness dripping from her voice. “She’s only special because she’s survived what none of his other mates could. Everyone else who loved him died because of that curse. I honestly thought she'd be dead by now too."

I asked the question that had been burning in the back of my mind, something even Alpha Ethan had been curious about. “But why is she still