Chapter 234: Taking Advice
Jerome Brunton’s eyes landed on the tapestry that hung in that gilded parlour room. The high ceiling had beautiful paintings that belonged to the past century and were maintained pretty well. The ceiling to wall drapes were opened, letting in the sunlight and breeze from outside.
The Dowager asked the maid who poured the tea to retreat and Jerome looked at the maid carefully walking out without showing her back to the Dowager and closing the door gently.
"What is your enmity with Belfaguer?" Jerome asked, pushing the teacup away from him. His tone didn’t have the politeness he had till then and his eyes became sharp as a razor as they trained at the Dowager. He is not in the mood to drink tea now. His granddaughter still might be in danger.
" Belfaguer?" the Dowager’s eyes widened and the wrinkles on her face couldn’t conceal the fright she had.
How could she forget the man who made her bury her son, grandson and their wives on the same day?
That madman!
But why is Brunton bringing him up? No...! Is he eyeing my Talia now?
"Yes, Arnold Belfaguer." Jerome didn’t feel pity at the woman older than him by two decades in front of him with her fingers trembling. His tone still was stern and low. He doesn’t shout at people. He doesn’t need to shout at people. They all know how dangerous he is without him shouting.
For many people in the world, Arnold Belfaguer is just a blue blood, whose family made money with mineral mines and diamond mines for many generations. But only he knows the other dangerous part of him - The member of a notorious cabal that makes decisions on behalf of the world.
"Arnold Belfaguer... ," the Dowager sighed. But her eyes weren’t looking at Jerome and she looked out through the window. The branches of the trees at the distance were shaking in the wind and so was her heart. "I don’t know him." She obviously didn’t want to talk to Jerome about him and she lied.
That lunatic thinks that he is the illegitimate son of her husband - King George. For some reason his crazy mother fed him lies that she cheated on her husband with King George and he was the result of that cheating. He believes that he is a Prince and she- the Queen Consort of King George, was the reason King George didn’t acknowledge him.