The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 290: What was shattered?

Sigrid took Roland’s hand and sat beside him, waiting in silence for signs of revival from him. How could she continue when he was not saying a word? When the conversation had started off, she had been feeling a knot in her stomach and now it had loosened.

She was sure that telling him was the right decision. At the end of the day, his bastard brother was mostly his business and not hers. Whyever had she kept that secret?

Was she so obsessed with secrets that she wanted to keep even the smallest ones close to her chest? Sigrid thought it would be along wait but it was not. He came to life two minutes later.

Roland cleared his throat and picked up a thermos flask that he was certain contained hot peppermint, honey and ginger tea. The cup had not been sealed properly so he could smell the contents.

"Do you want some cake?" Sigrid asked him.

The chef had sent more than one slice, she had sent three slices. Sigrid had not even eaten half of the first one she was poking into slowly with a small two pronged fork.

She decided to ask something else. "Do you want to talk about how you are feeling right now? About your father?"

He shook his head slowly. "No, just continue on with your story. How did you know about my father and this woman he loved so much?"

She sent the fork to her mouth and licked off the cream slowly. The she put it back into the cake and said in a low voice, "After your mother gave me the assignment of finding your father a new distraction, I set out to find out the king’s preferences in women. I needed to know why he loved Rina. What was so special about her that the king was willing to bear all scorn and ignore every whisper and the anger of the queen for her.

The answer was provided by my dream. There are some things that I left out when I told you about how Emmah would cause all of our deaths."

turned his head and

eyes on her but she kept her eyes on the plate of cake. "In my dream, Emmah and Rina were close which is natural as she loved Benjamin and her luck assisted

sought to cleanse everyone that knew of her past the more powerful she grew. So, she told Emmah her deepest secret, the fact that she had come from a brothel. They got rid of the madame that sold Rina to the king but the was not enough the brothel itself

schemes, she reported them to the authorities and that was how anyone that could have known

had sold Rina. She was the one that told me about Risa, the king’s original first love. I figured out that Rina’s face was the biggest reason as to why the king dotted on her so I

laughs came from Roland. He recalled how his father had all but forgotten about Rina on the very day of her funeral and rushed to take in

name even Elarin?"

her lips

laughed again. Elarin, Risa, Rina...the names were all similar in their own ways. "So you deliberately brought her here to perform for my father deliberately on

notice, your father’s attention had been gravitating to one of the daughters of the

the hopes of catching the attention of the king. I had to act fast. Rina had no background and yet she was a fierce

had become the secondary consort, our death warrants would have been signed. As soon as she had a male child, our necks would be in

hope that you know I was trying to protect us. Everything I do is

did not say anything for a while. He was angry, he

while they remained frozen in time. In that time, she reminded herself not to crack, not

Emmah and to save her life. Without life love was useless. So, she could not fold, she

needed. If she had not been the