Chapter 529: THE IMPOSTER
"Come home?" Cherry asked seemingly lost. "What do you mean your grand daughter has finally come back home?"
Rose ignored her sister knowing that she was going to disapprove of her.
"You never believed me when I told you. You thought I was crazy." Rose began. "But now see. She came to me. She came to find me."
Cherry looked to Hildegard.
"You don’t know this person from anywhere." Cherry said alarmed.
At that very moment the large doors barged open and none other than her husband came in.
Everywhere went quiet.
He looked around everyone confused.
Then his eyes stopped at Rose fervently holding unto a strange girl he had never seen before.
"What’s going on?" He asked lost.
And then he noticed the red hair and he knew instantly.
He closed his eyes in exhaustion.
Another imposter.
He rubbed his eyes and then snapped his fingers at the guards.
"Take her away." He ordered.
The guards immediately went into action.
"Stay back!" Rose ordered, putting Auburn behind her and they froze.
She turned to glare at him.
Her eyes spitting fire, ready to burn anything and anyone in her path.
"How dare you try to send away your own grand daughter?" Rose demanded furiously.
Roland could hardly believe it.
Of all the people that come to claim to be Scarlett, Rose had always been disappointed.
She had known that none of them were their daughter.
But here she was all of sudden, not only saying she had a grand daughter, but saying that this stranger was her grand daughter.
It made absolutely no sense.
Roland took in a deep breath. "Rose we don’t have a grand daughter. We only had a daughter and she is dead. Rose we need to let this rest."
"Rest?!" Rose asked alarmed. "This is our grand daughter and you’re turning a blind eye! Rejecting her like she is a mate?"
"We’re not doing this here." He said aware that the guards and other people who weren’t supposed to be there were listening.
"Look at her!" Rose said filled with hurt. "This is our grand daughter."
Roland rubbed his face and sighed exhausted.
"Rose we can’t do this here." He explained.
"Then fine." She said pulling Auburn’s hand and dragging her. "I’m taking her to the room. There is no need to do anything."
But Roland came right in front of Rose preventing both women from coming any step further.
"Like hell you are." He said his face a mask of thunder. Then he looked at the girl. "How dare you come in here and make such false allegations?!"
"Your majesty." Auburn managed. "I’m not telling lies. You really are my grand parents."
"Enough!" Roland rose his hands up refusing to hear anymore lies.
"Guards I said TAKE HER AWAY!" He ordered once again.
The guards approached them and Rose turned to face them.
"If you take one step closer I won’t kill you, but I would strip you from your wolves and leave you soul dead." She promised.
They paused.
The guards were now seemingly conflicted on who to obey and who not to.
One, Rose was their rightful blood Queen and then Roland her husband was the King Consort.
But ever since she had slipped into her madness he had been the one to take over most affairs of the kingdom.
They hovered confused on what to do.
"I am your Queen and you will obey me. I am Queen before he is King." She pointed out.
Then she turned to face him her nostrils flaring.
"I’ve found my grandchild and you won’t deny me of that." She said. "She is yours too. Because you won’t accept her doesn’t mean I won’t."
"Grandchild?" A confused Belle came in.
"You can not let an outsider, a stranger come into our home." He said ignoring Belle. "If you accepted everyone that came in impersonating our daughter, then we would have had a thousand daughters living with us."
"But we have never had a grand daughter come." She said. "And people don’t know we have a grand daughter. It was I who told you."
Roland walked up to his wife and took her arm gently aside.
She was still fervently holding unto Auburn as though if she let go, she would never see her again.
"I need to talk to you." He said.
She kept on holding Auburn till he added. "Alone."
She swallowed and hesitated for a while before turning to Auburn and telling her. "I’ll be with you in a second."
And then she finally let go and stood with him.
He gently held her shoulders as he began to speak to her.
"Rose. I understand how you feel. You’re tired and someone told you that our daughter somehow survived. Now we have a grand daughter and I know that you want this to be true. But this isn’t the way to go about it. People have tried to take advantage of her misfortune before. This is a new level of low."
She looked up at him her eyes brewing with emotions. "This is our grand daughter. I want you to trust and believe me on this."
He cupped her cheek. "Rose...
"Fine. We would investigate. See if she isn’t our grand daughter. See if her red is dyed. If she isn’t carrying our blood. All the necessary things." She pleaded. "As my husband I’m begging you that I want your side on this."
He looked at her for a while and then turned to look at the girl who was standing on her own.
After a few minutes, he took in a deep breath and said.
"Okay Rose. We would do the trails to see if she is really our grand daughter." He agreed.
And then Rose hugged him the dead streaming down her eyes in relief.
"If she isn’t. She would be given the earth penalty." He said. "I’m sick and tired of people coming to claim from our pain. She would be used as an example