The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 140: Roland’s shadow.

"You are up to no good." Galen commented as Lanai walked away.

"You would know that, wouldn’t you?" Sigrid replied smoothly. She flashed Galen a curious smile and slowly asked. "Whose idea was it to come to the Vale and play by the lake?"

Galen pointed at Benjamin, but when she saw the doubt in Sigrid’s eyes he gave up on the lie.

’What can I say?" He shrugged. "I like starting trouble and its fun watching my dear third brother stumble. I won’t lie, I am enjoying watching him be humbled little by little, his reputation going down a trench and finally learning how it feels to be the rest of us, ignored by our father. Roland may not have grudges about how we were raised but I do."

"So you brought them here to irritate me because you figured that I would do something else to make waves." She surmised.

Again, he shrugged, looking very unapologetic. "Every time you encounter Emmah Windrider, something happens. It always ends in tears or blood for her and Benjamin rushes over to comfort her."

His eyes glittered with sly amusement, they were sharp devoid of the pretentious carefree disposition that he always displayed.

"So, you are using me." Sigrid chuckled dangerously.

Galen nodded, "Welcome to the royal family, we all use each other but to what end is the question. I am admitting this willingly, I intend to reap from the seeds you sow. I have no desire to be king and I would have my real brother on the throne than the son of a whore who will no doubt wipe us out if he becomes king.

He despises us because of the verbal humiliations his mother suffered over the years. My mother also tried to kill him many times. The more loved he was, the more she longed to snap his neck so he hid in Roland’s shadow, following him to battles and acting as if he was the best brother in the world.

was the most precious child in the royal family. I think his mother taught him well, he is bidding his time, watching Roland’s strength and assessing his

in not so to take

has been investigating the fire secretly while pretending that he moved on. As long as that suspicion

he passionately explained his reasons, Sigrid saw the calculating man behind the happy mask. Galen was also a predator, a silent and slow predator. The kind that you never saw coming

to survive in the royal family

being honest with me?"

in the chair, the expression on his face changed from calculating and sly to easy going, silly

enemy. You see things for what they are unlike Roland that has been blind for many years. Don’t worry, I won’t ask you to

arms above her head and yawned. "What happened to King Merrett and Eulalie

great, great, great grandmother was Eulalie. What do

history but she took a

infatuation. So, if Emmah Windrider thinks she will easily marry and live happily ever after, she is dreaming." Galen picked up a glass of wine and stopped talking. He stood

was wrong, in the original story,

to the top because they gave her a helping hand. They never adopted her

in the novel, of course things were a little different now that the lucky

long after Galen left, she did the same, returning to the castle without interfering in Emmah and Benjamin’s outing. An hour later, Roland returned and she told him about what had happened, showing him

Emmah, only ten percent was