Chapter 261: The queen consort lived!
Not everyone was too pleased with the changes that Sigrid and Roland were making in the new empire. Murmurs of discontent were whispered in the royal family. Some royal relatives were not too happy to be left out when government positions were handled out.
In the two weeks that had passed, the whispers had turned into louder noise which Sigrid and Roland had been ignoring but the matter could not be ignored anymore, it seemed.
A meeting of the royal family was held, governed by Roland’s grandmother, King Raff’s mother, the Queen consort Sylvie Maximus. Sigrid had never met the woman, and she always assumed that she was dead.
For one, nothing about her appeared in the novel. Two, the queen consort did not attend her wedding and three, nobody mentioned the elderly woman. In fact, Sigrid found a fourth reason, she had not seen Sylvie when King Raff was injured. As they stepped foot into the grand manor Sylvie called home, Sigrid found herself feeling uneasy.
It was that feeling that somebody had eyes on them. Forget the rest of the royal relatives that had already arrived and were roaming around for one reason or the other. These eyes were coming from somewhere above them and they felt predatory.
"Someone is watching us." She whispered to Roland.
Roland saw his cousins, uncles, servants....pretty much everyone was looking at them. They were the Crown prince and princess, it was only natural that people were always looking at them.
"Everyone that is passing by is looking at us." he told her.
She shook her head, turned to the stairs that led up to the second floor and that’s when she saw the watcher. It was an elderly woman standing on the landing just above the steps. She had a walking cane in one hand and a middle aged maid was supporting her from one side.