Chapter 212: Don’t Trust Everything She Says
Aleksander spent the night in his old manor and didn’t return to the Rose Palace until sunset of the next day. Word got around the kingdom of his return to his old manor, and many speculations and guesses were made by both his enemies and allies alike.
Elys on the other hand was at her wits end. She was thankful that Aleksander’s magic seemed to have not been revoked even with him leaving the palace, but that meant as well that she couldn’t speak with Cordelia.
If she had an ounce of chance to know what Cordelia did, she would have to go to her husband and ask for it.
Aleksander already read Cordelia’s mind and discovered her secrets, along with the details of her betrayal and everything in between. The young queen was grateful for her husband’s help, but his insistence that the old woman be locked up in the dungeons didn’t sit well with her.
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"Your majesty," Lady Azalea knocked three times on Elys’ office door.
"What is it, first born daughter of the Igniss’?" Elys asked without raising her head.
She was going through some books she had pulled out from the royal archives. Lady Azalea walked towards her and discreetly looked over to what the queen was reading on about.
The young queen was very much absorbed into the texts she was reading.
"What do you want, Lady Azalea?" Elys repeated, "If you are here only to check what I am working on, then you might as well go elsewhere and find something fun to do – I don’t know, perhaps dance with the courtiers in the main palace or have some fresh blood with the other ladies."
"Pardon my intrusion, Queen Elysianne," her lady in waiting apologized, "I just thought perhaps you might need anything. You seem to be quite irritable since yesterday, your majesty."