The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 244: A visit from an old goat.

Sigrid raised the cup of hot chocolate to her lips. She gazed at Lord Benwick lazily over the rim of the cup. He

was not yet on his knees and it appeared he intended to defy her.

"Kneel or remove yourself from my presence Lord Benwick." Sigrid calmly said.

She lowered the cup into the sofa and sat them both on the table.

Lord Benwick firmly kept his arms at the side of his body and he drew in a sharp breath. He urged himself to

remain calm, the princess was just drunk on power. Her reputation was widely known, she liked to play the tough

game. To deal with her, he had to be smart.

"Crown princess, greetings." He bowed his head and gave her a polite greeting.

Sigrid nodded, acknowledging the greeting. "What brings you in search ofLord Benwick?" she asked.

He spread his arms out, and moved forward, intending to approach her but Brolin’s sword stopped him. The

knight gestured that he step back. Lord Benwick did not like it but her obeyed anyway.

"If I might offer sadvise..." he started.

"Don’t." Sigrid stopped him. "Do not offerany advise as you are not my advisor Lord Benwick. Your loyalty is

questionable. By day, you serve the queen but by night, your loyalty is diverted to the king."

He froze, his eyes narrowed.

"I bet you did not think that anybody outside your little secret council of three was aware of this secret. Even the

queen is not aware that her most loyal advisor has been in the king's pocket for so long. Your kind of treachery

fascinatesbecause you are like a man with no nation, you serve whoever has the power. If Medoris were to

conquer Eldoria, you would probably becan advisor to the Medorian emperor within a day." Sigrid picked up

the cup again and took a sip.

She allowed Lord Benwick a moment to ponder on his secrets that she had just laid bare.

"| can assure you crown princess that my loyalty is to Eldoria. If it were not, | would not be here offering to lend

my expertise to you." He gave her a shrewd look and asked, "How, if | may ask, did you cacross this

information on me?"

Sigrid raised an eyebrow. "Why, so that you can kill my informant?"

There was no informant but Sigrid would not let him know of that. It was best for him to be paranoid, wondering

who had betrayed him and what other secrets of his had been leaked. "So | take it that you are in search of new

employment now that both of your former employers are unavailable. Other people would use this tto relax,

take a vacation, consider another career."

Lord Benwick smiled. "I am not one of those people."

"Of course you are." Sigrid replied, "Everyone must take a vacation at spoint in their life. If you keep

jumping from one master to another, you will end up with no master and no feet to use in jumping anymore."

She tilted her head downwards and looked at his legs.

Lord Benwick took a subconscious step back. He was not a coward and he was not easily scared but there was

something unpredictable about the crown princess. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to surrender easily. "Your

highness, | know that you think you do not need my advise but | am more than certain that at spoint in the

future you will.

The position you find yourself in now is different from the one where you were yesterday. A king controls the

kingdom, a queen controls the king. In the final analysis, the queen controls the kingdom. | can help you achieve

this."

That little tidbit, she did not need to know for she was aware of already. All of Roland's biggest decisions ever

since she and Roland started getting along involved her. Even when she had nothing to contribute, he told her

about what he intended to do.

"And yet the queen you served failed to do that. The dead consort Rina achieved it on her own--to a small

extent." She replied.

Lord Benwick did not appreciate the undertones in her statement, it was clearly being called a loser without the

word being said directly.

"Also, let's not forget the fact that you served the king, spilling all of the queen’s secrets to him. So...." She put

the cup down and spread out her hands. "What did she control?"

Lord Benwick was at a loss. She had invalidated that reason with excellent points.

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She waved her hand out lazily. Knights stepped in front of Lord Benwick and forced him to leave.

Mauve stepped out from behind an overgrown tree with pink fruits that looked like strawberries. She sat down

and shot a glance at Lord Benwick’s vanishing back. "Are you letting that old goat go just like that?"

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