Chapter 280: The Fairfax bastards come home.
That same day, as Sigrid was having a late lunch, her biggest enemy Emmah was licking her lips, hunger was gnawing at her but she had been been denied a bite of food or a drop of water.
The punishment meted out by the old count were very harsh, beatings and starvation were just some of them. All of the grace that Emmah had earned had died the moment she was arrested for shoving Deanne into a window.
It didn’t help that the excitement the old count had when he thought Emmah would be one of Princess Thalassa’s bridesmaids had died an unfulfilled dream. He had bragged about it to his friends and when it did not happen, he was embarrassed.
What embarrassed him even more was their family being denied entry to the royal castle at the gates on the day of Thalassa’s wedding. White knights that worked for the crown prince and princess had turned away all the guests from the Fairfax family.
Sir Brolin had told the count to his face that he had Emmah to thank for the humiliation he had suffered and blame her he did.
Emmah blamed someone else for the pains she was suffering and it was none other than Sigrid. If Sigrid had not arrested her, she would have attended the royal wedding, taken all the credit for designing the princess’s wedding gown and showed off.
As she knelt on the floor, sulking and biting her cheek, she thought about all the ways in which she could make Sigrid suffer. Emmah was determined to have revenge, no matter how small.
The door was opened and guests entered. They walked right past her as she had been made to kneel in the hallway, near the entrance where everyone that came in or left the house would witness her humiliation.
"Have you heard? These boys and girls are all bastard children of Lord Derrick. We thought this one was brought back because she was special but apparently not." A maid whispered to another as they walked past Emmah.