The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 368: What choice would she make?

Lady Florentine stood up as sitting was no longer serving her. "He brought it on himself. If Raff had married my daughter early or treated her...."

"Stop." Sigrid raised her hand because she did not want to hear it. "This man was betrothed to your daughter but never looked her way. He never called on her or courted her. He flirted with other women and engaged in love affairs with mistresses that he kept in every city in this empire.

This should have been the very first sign that you needed to terminate the betrothal. Even before he married the queen, he was humiliating her. We can both be honest, the queen is a beautiful woman. She developed an ugly heart over the years but she remains a beauty. She could have had her pick of men.

The king only came to marry your daughter when he wanted your help in helping him sit permanently on the throne. You all knew what he was after.

You and your husband and your entire family, you were greedy for the throne. You sold your daughter for the pride that comes attached to the title of queen."

"Like your family sold you." Lady Florentine hit the floor with her cane.

Sigrid sneered, "I was not sold. My grandfather turned the king down at least three times when he tried to marry me to the crown prince. It was not until the King threatened to marry me to the nasty Viscount Durin that I chose to marry Roland." She pointed to her chest. "I chose to marry, my parents did not decide for me, I decided for myself.

If I had said no, my grandfather would have been very willing to uproot the entire Thorin family and move us to Medoris. That or rebel. As long as it guaranteed that I would be happy, he would have done anything. My parents and brothers too, they were ready to do whatever it took to protect me. What did you do to protect your daughter?"

jaw and she sat down. To that question, she had no answer because she had not done a damn thing when the decisions were being made. Her voice had not been heard and neither was

She had always been proud to be betrothed to the Crown prince

a small vial that she placed on the table. "You know that you are never going to leave this room alive. For as long as your daughter lives, you will continue to be stuck here. And if she dies before you, you will die along with her because news of your sickness was spread all through the empire. Pictures of the both of you in which you are covered in boils were shared with the citizens through the news.

sound was accompanied by slumped shoulders and a resigned shake of the head. This was not the outcome she saw when

no response. Instead, she continued

and looked at the bed where the queen was being held down by maids because she was fighting to stand up. "But, I doubt that the queen is ready to die now and she is so much younger than you and in full health. It will be

lips formed a half-smile. "And my grandson,

more than one."

was not talking

continue to stand by and watch as his mother suffers and perishes?" Lady Florentine

visited a few times and yet he has never bothered to enter this bedroom or ask the maids to bring her out so

that failed to love and care for her son all through his life and only used him to advance her plots and those of her family should have seen

is too late. After her death, he will give her a grand funeral and then move on

Sigrid turned to leave.