Chapter 100: Get RID OF VIVIAN

VIVIAN

Elena returned to the Mansion Caelen had given to her with a storm brewing inside her heart.

The moment she stepped through the door, she dismissed the servants who came to welcome her and hurried upstairs.

She couldn’t bear to see anyone.

Not when she had just suffered such humiliation.

The image of Vivian standing beside those elite soldiers flashed through her mind. The way they had treated her, the way they had thrown her out of Vivian’s house without a second thought, and the way Vivian had smiled as though she had won some extraordinary victory.

Elena clenched her fists. "That wretched female!"

Her voice trembled with anger.

How dare Vivian humiliate her like that?

She was Elena Astronova, an SSS-Class Saintess of the Phoenix bloodline! Even the most powerful families in Haxia treated her with respect.

Yet those soldiers had looked at her as though she were nobody.

All because of Vivian.

And the worst part?

Vivian hadn’t even needed to lift a finger.

She had simply stood there and watched.

Elena’s eyes grew red.

She rushed to her bed, picked up her communicator, and called her mother.

The moment the connection went through, Emelianna’s holographic image appeared before her.

"Elena? What happened?"

Emelianna frowned. Her daughter looked terrible. Her eyes were red, her lips trembled, and tears were already gathering at the corners of her eyes.

"Mother..."

Elena’s voice cracked. "Mother, what am I supposed to do now?"

Emelianna immediately straightened.."What happened? Did something happen to Caelan?"

At the mention of Caelan, Elena’s expression twisted. "No! It’s Vivian!"

Emelianna’s face changed. "Vivian? Again? Did she disrespect you again?"

Elena nodded, tears spilling down her cheeks. "Mother, do you know what I discovered today? The person we’ve been looking for all this while, the one who has been seducing Caelan behind my back..."

She paused, pressing a trembling hand against her chest.

"It’s Vivian!"

Silence. Emelianna stared at her daughter. "What did you just say?"

"It’s Vivian!" Elena repeated, raising her voice. "The person who has been trying to steal Caelan from me is my own sister! How could she do this to her own younger sister..."

Her tears fell faster. "All this time, I thought it was some shameless woman from another family. I thought someone was deliberately trying to ruin my relationship with Caelan. But it was Vivian! She was the one living with him, the one he kept thinking about, and the one who fell from the stairs. They even said she was pregnant with Caelan..Which was a lie!! We know Vivian CANT have a child. An unawakened Fox CANT have a child."

Elena covered her face and began to sob.

"Mother, how could she do this to me? I’m her sister!"

Emelianna’s expression darkened.

She had never suspected that Vivian might be involved in Caelan’s strange behavior, but hearing Elena confirm it still made her uncomfortable.

That girl had always been troublesome.

Even after leaving the Astronova family, she continued creating problems for them.

"Calm down, Elena," Emelianna said. "Crying won’t solve anything. Tell me exactly what happened."

Elena slowly lowered her hands. "Mother, there’s something else."

She took a shaky breath. "Sentinel Vega has accepted Vivian as his personal soldier."

Emelianna’s eyebrows rose. "Vega?"

"Yes!"

Elena’s voice sharpened.

"The same Vega who rejected my offer to become my beast husband! The same man who refused to have anything to do with me!"

Her hands curled into fists.

"He rejected an SSS-Class Saintess, Mother! But now he’s allowing Vivian to live with him!"

Emelianna’s expression turned thoughtful. Vega was no ordinary man.

He had become a Sentinel at eighteen, and his position gave him access to resources and authority that even prominent families couldn’t easily obtain.

His refusal to become Elena’s beast husband had already been a blow to the Astronova family’s influence.

But Vivian?

What could a girl without an officially awakened rank possibly offer him?

Unless...

Emelianna’s eyes narrowed.

"Are you certain she’s going to live with him?"

"His soldiers came personally to take her away!" Elena cried. "They even threw me out when I tried to question them. Mother, they treated me like a stranger!"

Her voice became increasingly aggrieved.

"Vivian is a fox beastkin. You know how cunning foxes can be! What if she uses that face of hers to get closer to Vega? What if she seduces him and makes him her beast husband? What if she comes for our family.saying we mistreated her?"

Emelianna remained silent.

Elena watched her mother’s face carefully through the hologram.

There it was. That slight change in her expression.

Emelianna was thinking.

Good. Elena lowered her eyes and allowed fresh tears to slide down her cheeks.

"But perhaps I’m being unfair to her," she whispered.

Emelianna looked up. "What do you mean?"

Elena gave a weak, bitter laugh. "Maybe Vivian really has changed. Maybe she’s simply lucky enough to attract powerful men without even trying."

She paused, then quickly shook her head.

"No, forget I said that. She’s still my sister. I shouldn’t speak badly of her."

The words sounded forgiving.

But the implication lingered. Vivian had attracted Caelan.

Now she had attracted Vega.

And Elena, the Saintess whom everyone expected these powerful men to choose, had been rejected by both circumstances and fate.

Emelianna’s face grew colder. "Elena, don’t blame yourself."

"I’m not, Mother."

Elena wiped her cheeks.

"I’m only worried about what will happen when the Federick family discovers this."

Emelianna went still.

"The Federick family?"

Elena hesitated, as though she had said something she shouldn’t.

Then she sighed.

"Mother, you know their eldest daughter has a relationship with Vega. I don’t know how serious it is, but people have spoken about them before."

She looked at her mother with troubled eyes.

"If she hears that another woman is living with Vega, especially a woman who has already been involved with Caelan, what do you think she’ll do?"

Emelianna’s expression became guarded. "Are you suggesting we tell her?"

"No!" Elena answered immediately.

Too immediately. She lowered her head, appearing embarrassed by her own outburst. "I mean... why would we interfere in Vivian’s affairs? She’s an adult now. She can make her own choices."

A brief silence followed.

Then Elena continued, more softly.

"But if the Federicks hear about it from someone else, they might think our family deliberately helped Vivian get close to Vega. They might even believe we’re trying to compete with them for influence."

She looked genuinely frightened at the thought.

"Mother, I don’t want our family dragged into this. We’ve already suffered enough because of Vivian’s behavior."

Emelianna’s gaze sharpened.

Elena had finally given her something worth considering.

This was no longer merely about a jealous sister.

If the Fredericks believed the Astronovas were helping Vivian secure a relationship with Vega, the political consequences could be unpleasant. After all they always had a good relationship with them and they are helping them fight the Military for Ina’s disappearance."

"Then what do you suggest?" Emelianna asked.

Elena bit her lower lip.

She waited just long enough to make her answer appear reluctant.

"Perhaps we should simply make sure the Federick’s hear the truth before they hear a distorted version of it."

Emelianna said nothing.

"We don’t need to accuse Vivian of anything," Elena continued. "We can tell them that Sentinel Vega has appointed her as his personal soldier and that she’s now staying under his protection. That’s all."

She lifted her tearful eyes.

"If the relationship is innocent, then there should be no problem, right?"

It was a beautiful question.

Because if Emelianna agreed that there was no problem, she would have to explain why the Federick’s shouldn’t be informed.

And if she admitted there might be a problem, Elena would have her opening.

Emelianna frowned. "That SSS class daughter of the Federick family has always been known to be a psycho..she doesn’t look at faces."

"Mother. I’m frightened too."

Elena’s voice softened.

"What if the Federick family’s eldest daughter becomes angry and confronts Vivian? What if she thinks Vivian is deliberately trying to take Vega away from her?"