Chapter 284
"What are you on about now, child? Your mother was not killed. She got sick and died. I had let you continue to search for evidence that she was killed so that when you came to the realisation that she was just sick, you would let go of this. You cannot continue to push the matter that your mother was killed. Let the woman rest," said Margaret.
Amelia wished her mother was here right now instead of hiding because of what she became. Today was the best day to have those who harmed her mother killed even if it was her grandmother.
"I was by my mother’s almost every day. She was always wary about the food and sometimes would not let me eat it. Being queen does not make anyone safe. There are plenty of people in the castle who wanted her dead. Father’s mistresses, the men in the court, and you," Amelia said, releasing her dress as she calmed her emotions.
"Don’t be preposterous. I loved your mother. If I didn’t, she would not have been queen for so long. It is better to point fingers at your father," Margaret said, moving to take a seat since her feet started to hurt from how long she had been standing around.
Margaret was awake long before the sun rose to start her plans to get Killian. She had much to tell her family about a demon stepping foot into a temple and not burning or being affected by holy water.
"I once thought it might have been my father, but he was too obsessed with my mother to kill her. He didn’t cry when she was buried and he didn’t honor her when the time came around to celebrate her, but he did not kill her. He would rather her watch him take other women and to hurt her, further he would have used me or killed Leonard," Amelia said.
Margaret froze in her seat. There was no one but her, Richard, Anne, and Leonard who knew of the complicated relationship. "Who told you about your mother and Leonard?"
"That is not important," Amelia said, refusing to expose Leonard. "Like everything else, I was left in the dark. What is important is that I don’t believe my father killed my mother. Honestly, he was never so smart to plot to kill his wife and get away with it. He knew not to upset the kingdom with her death."
"Did you know that my mother wrote books of her time in the castle?" Amelia asked, testing to see her grandmother’s reaction.