Chapter 129: Scandals, oh scandal!

Lady Percival who was known for her sharp tongue and even sharper wit, was caught in a heated argument with Lady Jane Fairfax over the last glass of champagne. The rather loud argument was only overshadowed by the even louder music in the background.

The exchange ended with Lady Jane dumping the contents of the glass over Lady Percival’s head, much to the amusement of the onlookers.

Lord Fairfax turned all shades of red and he carried his intoxicated wife out of the hall amidst chuckles from onlookers.

Sigrid urged Mauve to move things along, it was a ball, such incidents were not unexpected.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the auction is not over. We have entered the second phase and in the line up, we have the third prince Benjamin Roland." Mauve announced loudly.

Hardly had Benjamin come out when bids started rolling in, each doubling the previous one. He was in a black T-shirt similar to the one Roland had donned. Where Roland had displayed an uncomfortable smile, Benjamin’s was charming.

He played along with the excited crowd, flexing his biceps, turning around slowly with his arms spread out. He even blew kisses at the ladies and winked which fueled the madness.

He was an unwed prince with two open positions for main wife and secondary consort, nearly every single woman in attendance wanted to occupy one of those positions.

"Fifty thousand gold coins." Kitty Anderson shoved another young lady aside as she moved to the front.

"One hundred thousand gold." Emmah countered.

"One hundred twenty thousand." Bernadine Rosewood jumped up and down.

Her mother pushed her hand down and she frowned. She did not want her nineteen year old inexperienced innocent daughter anywhere around the roguish prince.

gold." Countess Beatrice Smith

the women had lost their minds and the poor fathers and brothers out of whose

woman, shouldn’t

chain of silence and mumbles in the room. It caused an eruption of noise when Lady Beatrice responded in a way that was

if you drop your dress

covered the rest of the sound with loud abrupt music which was only played for five seconds. Still, it was safe to assume that this was going to be added to the

thousand going

bid. "And a recipe for

"Pudding!!" Someone exclaimed.

in the hall and for a few seconds, a lot of people forgot about the fact that she had just

you look at that, she wants to buy a

respond, Sigrid

"Sold." Mauve declared.

willing to go

plan was to invite the prince to his home for the date and then he could be caught in an embarrassing position with one or two of

the prime minister tried to move through the crowd to complain but it was too late.

wow!!!" The herald exclaimed. "Another round of applause for

again, the guests laughed, a lot of unhappy

the wedding reception and we will all get to taste it." Mauve joked

the winners to interact. It did not take long for another scandalous event

than John Thorin and Lady Abigail Givenchy. Not a lot of people were aware that John was courting her. She had won the bid and they had gone off

Sigrid, the gracious hostess, simply smiled and raised an eyebrow, letting

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