The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 314: Roland does well.

"I am surprised Lord Benwick. You did not seem to be the suicidal type to me. I expected much more of a fight from you."

He coughed up more blood and laughed, cackles falling out of his mouth like the last cracking of a twig in a tiny fire. "You think you are smart, but you are not the smartest. Someday, somehow, someone will whisper something to you and you will do it. One thing will to two and two will lead three."

Once again, he coughed before continuing, "Eventually you will have someone like me by your side. Maybe it will be one of those with you today or maybe it will be someone else. I don’t know who but someone will pull your strings."

He breathed his last and his head fell.

Duke Thorin sniffed the air. "Do you smell that?"

The others raised their heads and their nostrils flared.

"Fuck!" Sigrid cursed. She waved her hand once and they all vanished out of the manor, coming out a small distance beyond the wall.

Before they could steady themselves, a loud explosion rocked the air and the earth trembled. As hot flames rose from manor and the wall came tumbling down, everyone sighed in relief for they had escaped a terrible death.

Sigrid covered her mouth and she laughed. "That rat bastard, he had other plans it seemed."

Mauve looked down at the body of Lord Benwick which Sigrid had somehow managed to bring out with them. She also thought back on the moment when Sigrid took them all out of the manor. Not a single command had fallen from her lips.

truly powerful, much more than she let on. As the lights came on and people run out of their houses to come and take

way she could be reassured that the man was truly dead. She did not want anything like what

the care of the Lord mage with instructions to make some changes to his physical appearance and then she

were lined up outside, leading all the way directly to the gate. They were royal carriages and outside of them, Roland and his men were waiting. They had been there

of the newer maids that worked for her family. She came to the men with a glasses of lemonade, water and two cups of hot chocolate coffee. She was quite brazen when she

to throw themselves at him. He was

shame and threw themselves at a married man

she was waiting to see how her husband would react, Mauve and Christie walked up to her from

get rid of the maid. The smile that had been on his face as he chatted with his brother and his men had faded. It had been replaced with

look on his face. Her lips even stretched to form a smile but it died when an errant thought crossed her mind. Perhaps her husband had

done well."

has a long way

shows some progress."

a Thorin maid. Surely he would not be

like an angel and a devil

was confused. "Wait, shouldn’t it be the

that Lord Benwick had talked about. The opinions of others which would affect her

welcomed their opinions but she had no

towards Roland. He was already waiting for her, a big grin on his handsome face. He knocked on the door of a carriage when she was close enough and a bouquet of flowers was