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.

again. Jesting had even had the chef send fruits and wine in

glass of wine immediately and he would need it

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

paused mid-raise. "What?"

reason to hurry. While she

came from the back of his hollow throat. They were in whisper, as if they were being forced

take it that you were truly not aware. I am sorry for being the one that has to deliver this news to you. Your father’s obsession with Rina was not because he was hopelessly in love with her. It was because she bore

miracle cure in the medicine valley for the late king’s poison. They had a 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

never forgot the woman he loved, Risa or the fact that she carried his first child. I think that if he was not worried about his power being challenged, he would have brought Risa and her child to

but she had given birth to the child. The child was

regrets. You see, he could have easily brought Risa to the capital,

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. Honestly, I believe that he

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 as well that his father loved and wanted cut so deep. How could a father pick and choose which child he loved as if he was picking his favorite foods