Chapter 212
"Well, this is a surprise. You used to stay away from my side of the castle. Why are you here child?" Margaret asked as she inspected the flowers she had planted in the castle garden. So far it was a quiet day but Beth’s arrival might ruin it shortly.
Beth walked around the garden looking at the flowers she would have pulled out of the soil the moment Fraser was announced as King. She wanted nothing linked to Margaret to stay in the castle. "I am hardly a child now and this isn’t your side of the castle anymore. I was just passing by and wanted to have a look at the garden."
"Your responses have gotten bolder. Is it because your son is going to be King? I wouldn’t be so bold until the crown is on his head but even then, it could easily be removed," Margaret replied. Beth used to try her best to avoid speaking with Margaret in the past. It was obvious Beth sought her out to have a chat. Margaret was a little bit curious about what Beth had to say.
Beth gripped her dress at Margaret’s threat to her son. Margaret was open with her threats now that she did not regard Fraser as her grandchild. "I love my son," said Beth.
"A mother should love their child. Even with all of his stupidity, I loved Richard," Margaret said, not amused by Beth’s declaration. "I never once thought that you did not love Fraser. You don’t have to tell me again."
"Fraser will be King in a few days. He does not need to be fighting with his family during those days. Regardless of the King of the north assigning you to watch over Fraser, you hate the castle, Lady Margaret. It would be best of you to pick out good people to help Fraser and go back to the life you once had before all of this," Beth suggested.
Margaret chuckled as she picked a flower. "And when will you go back to your former life when you used to stay out of the castle? It seems you don’t plan to go home to your husband or does he intend to come here? Your father-in-law is already here as if he lives in the castle. Gone are the days when only important people could stay here."
"I am only here to help Fraser-"
"It is not because you wanted to ease your way back into the castle? I’ve been around you for years Beth. You like life in the castle and you are using your son to come back. You’ve stayed out of the castle for fifteen years. To either run away from me or the things that happened here. I am starting to think you were waiting to have a proper ally to back you so you could come back. Fraser worked," said Margaret, seeing right through Beth’s act.