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Chapter 259 - The letter (2)

«I do not understand why you kept a prisoner queen alive,» the Dowager Empress says with a smirk. Her eyes are fixed on me, burning with the flames of her displeasure.

She hates me, doesn't she? I'm on her path to the throne in more than one way. And I'm not willing to let her rule even in a ladies' hall.

Her feelings brought her to accuse me in a public session, and this just makes me laugh inside.

«I cannot execute one of my nobles just because,» the Emperor says.

He doesn't care about me. He would do it if only it weren't for Alexander. Losing the Lord of Kyre as a loyal ally would unsettle his position.

Not to mention that the Princess wouldn't just let them dispose of me. They would at least postpone the execution to after the baby's birth.

The heir to Kyre is more precious than me.

«She isn't a noble of Ethiro, your majesty,» the Empress continues. «She's a prisoner queen from a fallen land.»

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