Chapter 318: Deanne stands up for herself.
Meanwhile, on the Thorin estate, East was playing another tune, tension related still. Sigrid was dozing off in the chair, snoring softly, her faced covered with newspapers. Christie was texting Orpheus, smiling like blooming flower that upon whose petals a magical rain had visited. Mauve and three maids were cooking. Her face was content as she was doing what she loved to do best.
Inside the house, it was not all peaceful. In a rare occurrence, Deanne was facing off against her mother Lady Ivory and their voices were loud enough to be heard by everyone in the front yard.
"You are an ungrateful fool. All I am doing is to help you but you are so blind to it. Your sister-in-law is the crown princess and yet when positions of power were being assigned to women she did not consider you. Why didn’t you assert yourself? Have I taught you nothing you wretched girl. You are a pathetic excuse for a daughter. Even your husband is lazy. He is a fool. A pathetic loser who cannot reach for the power within his grasp." Lady Ivory exploded. Each one of her insults rang louder that the next.
Nathaniel was outside the doors with his parents and grandparents. His valet was holding him back forcefully to keep him from heading inside and beating his mother-in-law into a pulp.
He was not the only one whose blood had turned to fire. All the eavesdropping Thorin’s and Deanne herself was feeling the same.
Deanne kicked a small table, forcing it to overturn. "You will not speak of my husband with such disrespect."
"Or what?" Lady Ivory smirked. "Or you will kick me like you kicked that table. Have they taught you nothing here but the behaviors of a barbarian? Have you forgotten why you were married into this family?"
The eavesdroppers froze, curious to know the next statement out of Lady Ivory’s mouth. Nathaniel and Deanne were a love match. It never crossed anyone’s mind that there was trickery of some sort involved.
Nathaniel was already imagining the worst, hurt flickered in his eyes. Lady Ivory’s visit had been stressing him and his wife and it seemed like they had come to a breaking point.