The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 289: Blame it on the queen.

"My mother!" He said in a surprised voice that held a trace of doubt.

"Yes Roland, your mother told me to do this." She recalled how the queen had told her that if this plan was ever revealed, the blame could not be linked back to her. It was too bad for her because she was going to take all of it.

"Do tell." he moved from the wall and sat down in a chair.

It appeared to Sigrid as if he had lost some of the tension that his body had been holding in earlier. It seemed there was a chance to make it out of this for her.

"When I met your mother, after our wedding she pulled me aside for a conversation. We don’t have much in common the queen and I but we have you." She looked at him, softening her voice to give it some emotional weight. "We both want the best for you. The one thing that we both knew was standing in your path was Rina.

Her control over the king and his blind love and preference for Benjamin were two things that were dangerous to leave unchecked the older the king grew. According to your mother, the king was becoming more and more prone to foolish suggestions made by Rina."

She changed her sitting position and started to look around.

Even though Roland was not too pleased with her at the moment, he recognized what she needed. It was something to drink. He made a call and ordered for someone to bring some warm milk and a slice of a cake.

Jesting had even had the chef send

need it because Sigrid was

of the cake first, savoring the taste and yet not really enjoying it. "Are you aware that

paused mid-raise.

first, taking her time as if she had no reason to hurry. While she put down the glass, she said

broke into laughs, dry harsh disbelieving laughs that came from the back of his hollow

that has to deliver this news to you. Your father’s obsession with Rina was not because he was hopelessly

whirlwind romance and he planned to marry that woman. He planned to return to the capital and break off his betrothal to your mother. However, the king died and there was a battle for the throne. Your father needed strength and the support

she carried his first child. I think that if he was not worried about

power, and so he abandoned her. She later died but she had given birth to the child. The child

brought Risa to the capital, given her a good residence and gold to fill an

he saw the woman he loved in her. He paid a lot of gold for her, changed her identity and married her as his secondary consort. Everything that he never gave Risa he gave her. All the love he could not give his true first born son, he gave to Benjamin. He pampered him and dotted on him, giving him everything he wanted.

smashed the glass against the wall. He was angry, storms were swirling inside of him and he wanted to scream in rage. It was one thing to know that he had always come second to Benjamin in their father’s heart bu to know there was another child