Chapter 99: Planning a ball.
"Oh-oh!" Mauve exclaimed and closed her eyes for a moment, she had heard that tone and those words many times before. Rarely did a reminder from Mrs. Elsworth end in a hug and happy tears, for her it usually ended in a punishment like the confiscation of her cooking tools.
Mrs. Elsworth was direct, with her head held upright. "Crown princess you have been wed for three months and you have not thrown a ball. You and the crown prince are already whispered about as a couple with an uneasy relationship. You have not been seen together for more than an hour at a time in public.
The crown prince however has been seen in miss Emmah’s company, he has carried her...."
"She had fainted." Roland lashed out loudly in frustration, defending his actions.
Sigrid put her hand on his bicep, "Calm down, my love."
Roland’s knights and servants were expecting him to do something else, break the table at least but none of that happened. Instead, he took a deep breath and calmed down easily.
Mrs. Elsworth meanwhile was unperturbed by the outburst and she went on with her words, "he was seen draping his cloak over her, her gave her his gloves and touched her cheek."
Sigrid pulled her hand away and pinched him. "You touched her cheek!" she exclaimed.
She did not know about the public cheek touching, it was a rather unwelcome surprise. Even though she knew that it was the doing of the halo, she couldn’t help being angry with him in that moment.
"I was checking her temperature, she had just spit out blood and was shivering." he answered in the same frustrated voice. "I thought you understood me better than everyone else out there that is levying baseless accusations at me.’
"Haha, baseless!" she scoffed.
fizzled with tension and the
was saying, you touched her cheek and while you may not have thought much of it, in the eyes of others, it was a loving gesture. Everything that you have done for miss Emmah has been misconstrued in one way or the other which is why my very first task was
"Wonderful." Sigrid praised.
bought a
love?" she added sarcasm to
Elsworth." He turned his head to the butler. "Charles, be sure to
it fifty." Sigrid
hundred." Roland said
"Two hundred.’ Sigrid challenged.
of their first fight.
Elsworth was the same way, she did not understand why she was being rewarded or why the reward
good as a donation for food for the people in the North that have been suffering from a long drought. In the
am not sure that
assured her. "Ideally, this ball would be lavish, something that everyone would talk about for an entire year and all the other balls for they year would pale in comparison
the long drought
empathy for the common people. If you throw a lavish ball when a section of the kingdom is nearly starving, you will be seen
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