Chapter 257: Roland in a daze.

Roland and Sigrid compared thoughts on how to break Veylin. In fifteen minutes of doing that, they did not come close to a solution they both agreed on.

"We could give him Miss Keeley Valerius as wife." she suggested after ten seconds of silence.

Roland abruptly sat up and he looked at her through wide shocked eyes. He had a dreadful feeling that she was already aware of what Lord Lachlan Valerius had suggested to him in the petition.

"Is there anything that gets past you?" He asked her.

She smiled stiffly and shook her head. "Noooo..."

"How did you find out?" he asked curiously.

"I am mage." She shrugged.

Her answer did not explain how she knew what she knew. In truth, she had three spies in the Valerius house. Before the petition even arrived on Roland’s desk, she knew its contents.

"So, how do you plan to respond to Lord Lachlan? Should I prepare a nursery?"

Her mouth was dangerous, Roland decided then and there. She had a way of elevating his heartbeat in a way that was much worse than any ride towards the edge of the cliff on the back of his horse.

Any children I have must come from you. You are my wife Sigrid and forever you

life. This empire that we want to create, it is our dream not my dream. As long as I have your loyalty and you

twisted her lips, pretending that she

love...." He pulled

or real, she was unprepared to utter them. With Emmah still breathing and walking around with a lucky halo on her head, love

fingers and put them on her stomach. "We should

I will not be taking Lord Lachlan up on his ridiculous offer. I refuse to have a child that will be ridiculed, a child that will live forever feel unwanted because they must live in the shadows of

could even consider that ridiculousness. Was it because they had lost a child before?

drew his hand back, looking at her with disbelief that bedded a hint of harshness. "You don’t want to have my children! you would really rather have another bear me heirs

backed away from him, holding her hands up to stop him from derailing as a result of foolish assumptions. "I have not said anything about not wanting to

he

anger. "Will you stop making it sound as if I don’t want them too and I am not willing to let another woman give you

a runner

again. Shock coursed through his blood, if he was standing, it would have knocked

show but it slipped out of me." Sigrid put her hands on his shoulders and looked

whispered again. He seemed to be

waiting for him to finally come out of reverie. She would never know how

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