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.

much more than she let on. As the lights came on and people run out of their houses to come and take a look at the

the man was truly dead. She did not want anything like what happened in dramas to happen. Villains often had

in the care of the Lord mage with instructions to make some changes to his physical appearance and then she and her ladies-in-waiting

outside, leading all the way directly

that Roland was there for her so she step out of the carriage. Before she reached her husband, she couldn’t help but notice one 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

for women to throw themselves at him. He was almost the

shame and threw themselves at

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

placed the cup of chocolate coffee back on the silver tray and gestured for Sir Samuel to get rid of the maid. The

an errant thought crossed her mind. Perhaps her husband had classy tastes in the women he chose to flirt with. A maid was far worse than Keeley or any

has done well."

a long way to go." Christie

some progress." Mauve insisted on praising

maid. Surely he would not be too stupid as to eat from the same place where

an angel and a devil on

was confused. "Wait, shouldn’t it be the same place were Sigrid, our highly respected

two." She hissed at them. All this whispering was the very thing that Lord Benwick had talked about. The opinions of others

she had no intentions of allowing anyone to lead her by

of a carriage when she