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.

took her right hand, looked her in the eye and kissed the back of the hand. "That will not be necessary. Any children I have must come from you. You are my wife Sigrid and forever you will be my only queen. I love you...I have grown to love you...need you and want

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

pulled her hand out of his and twisted her lips, pretending that she was not

pulled her hand

was unprepared to utter them. With Emmah still breathing and walking around with a lucky halo on her head, love was nothing but a blockade to her mission which was staying

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

fathom how she could even consider that ridiculousness. Was it because they had lost a child

that bedded a hint of harshness. "You don’t want to have my children! you would really rather

derailing as a result of foolish

children." he spat

want them too and I am not willing to let another woman give you heirs. Stop leaping to conclusions and listen to me you bull headed bastard, I am pregnant. I mentioned the nursery because I am pregnant." She heaved as she repeated

breathing was comparable to that of a runner on a mountain that had

his blood,

you when I started to show but it slipped out of me." Sigrid put her hands on his shoulders and looked into his eyes, saying with seriousness.

again. He

like he would be in a dazed state for a while so she curled herself on the sofa, waiting for him to finally come out of reverie. She would never

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