Chapter 15: Counter measures of a schemer.

Sigrid raised her eyebrows, oh look another detail that was forgotten in the book, Emmah was raised on the funds of the Thorin family. They basically raised the child that would lead to their downfall.

In addition to that, they sheltered her mother, fed her, clothed her and protected her reputation. When a filtered version of this story was released to the public, Duchess Mila got the identity of a villain for cruelly forcing Mirena and Emmah to separate because she could not let go of her servant while Mirena was seen as the poor humble servant that suffered a grave injustice.

Mirena's soft beauty coupled with her sob story and Emmah's halo all contributed to her white washing and she won the heart of the king's widowed brother who married her in a grand wedding fit for nobility.

All this of course fattened up Emmah's identity even more, she went from a woman with unknown roots to the daughter of a prince.

Before getting married, there were some disasters that Sigrid wanted to take care of, like this one. The sooner Mirena was removed from the their home, the better.

"Duchess, pardon me for interrupting but if we do not hurry the lady will miss the auspicious time for the wedding." Lanai interjected into the conversation.

They were not talking anyway, all of them were thinking about what Sigrid had said. Time had really moved fast however and the sun had come up, the wedding was to be held in two hours time, followed by festivities, a banquet and then the couple would set off for Stormwind castle.

"We can discuss this next time, perhaps we we should have a talk with Mirena first." Iryne suggested.

"No."

The duchess and Sigrid both responded at the same time, rejecting the suggestion strongly.

away." Sigrid ordered. After ten seconds, she grabbed her grandmother's hands and said, "Grandmother, you need to get rid of her or else someone will take advantage of this matter to ruin my reputation later. How many of these noble families are waiting for an opportunity to send their daughters to Roland's bed and win his

very large price to make the king decree that he cannot

daughters take up the position of secondary wives the only option they have is to get rid of me, the main and only wife. Any negative information

the duchess but Iryne

assemble everyone on the estate, especially the servants on this list and let them all go. Start with Mirena, make sure that you mention her child, tell her that you are letting her go so that she can enjoy the rest of her

them a house, a small cottage somewhere and be sure to mention the orphanage and how you have been taking care of her

at her termination will testify

was no fool, all the reasons Sigrid laid out for her made a lot of sense. Their family had given up the salt mines to secure Sigrid's marriage. It would

about how Sigrid had talked the king into granting their family a death free medal, she had skeptical but now, she was convinced. Indeed, marriage made changed of women, and

cunning than a fox to survive the cunning nature

about the rest of the servants? Should

not give them any houses. You can plant a few of the loyal ones among them to express their dissatisfaction

innocence all these years, we need to turn it into one of cunning.

will be suspicious when we let go of thirty servants at the same time so in their place, hire new

also hire more farm hands, I met a business man at the Eastern boarder that gave me some new seeds which have never been planted in Eldoria. I think we should grow them and

very suspicious of our family, our military might makes him wary. If we take up part time farming and give up some

got off the bed and stretched

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