THE Knight's Hidden Princess
Chapter 142: Citizens Not Thief

Chapter 142: Citizens Not Thief

With the rebels already agreeing to help me, I feel a little bit happier than I ever felt in weeks. Things were finally looking up for me, I might have a chance at beating my father. Now that I had brought the black knight into our midst, it was like I had given the people hope again. They now have something worth fighting for. The past few months was spent gathering enough intel, we slowly started to gather more people that will fight for us and slowly, we began to put people in the castle to infiltrate and find out whatever it is we can use to get rid of King Sigurd.

Day by day, more people joined our cause. The numbers were fast growing, we have some old revolutionaries who had given up a long time ago, and we also have others we are new converts looking for a cause to screw the royal over.

Some of them still don’t trust me. I might have brought the black knight to the gathering but that doesn’t mean that they still trust me. But I didn’t mind, trust have to be earned and I was grateful for Eddie for impersonating me because through him, he had stirred something that I even had not anticipated, hope!

And as long as there was hope, everything is going to be right in the world.

The door to the house and opened and already knowing who it was, I walked across the room and opened it with a smile on my face.

Reagan took one look at me, a look of surprise on his face, "Well you look..."

"I swear if you say fat, I’ll punch you in the face!" I warned while shooting him a look.

I know I was starting to get really big but that didn’t mean I’d like to hear about it from my husband.

Reagan chuckled as he shook his head at me, "I was going to say beautiful but I guess we can go with throat punching pregnant lady!"

"Oh shut up!" I said with an eye roll but there was a smile on my face.

Reagan then stepped backwards while offering me his arm which I gladly accepted. I allowed me to lead me towards the house where we were going to be attending the morning assembly. It’s been a while since we had that and it was mostly because Reagan was never around.

For some reason he has been quite busy lately, he and Nikolai who was always scarce. There was the fact that two of them can be were always locked in their study. No one knows what they were always doing there but the way I see it, it must have been top secret.

I stared up at Reagan who smiled down at me which I returned with a wry smile of my own. I just couldn’t help but think that I do not like how he keeps secrets from me. Even when he comes to bed and lays right next to me at night and I try to figure out what it was he was busy doing with Nikolai he’d just find a way to stir the conversation away.

He was great and distractions and his fingers were very good distraction and sometimes he’d just kiss me on the forehead or gently rub my tummy till I fall asleep. The gesture was always sweet and cute but the whole not knowing thing is infuriating sometimes.

"I can feel you staring at me." Reagan said giving me a side way glance as we made our way to the front house, "You should stop."

"Why? Does it bother you?" I asked while arching a brow up at him.

Reagan snorted in response. "Darling, I do love having you look at me but this time around I can’t figure out if you want to kill me or plotting my slow agonizing death."

I tilted my head at him, "Do you think I can do that."

"I mean you can make it look like an accident!" He said while nudging me a little bit.

"You bet your ass I would if you don’t tell me what exactly is going on with you and Nikolai!" I said staring up at him.

Reagan sighed and I swore I saw something like guilt flash in his gaze but it was gone before I could place it. "Soon," Reagan responded looking down at me with a small smile on his face, "I really am sorry but I will tell you when it’s the right time."

When is ever the right time? I asked myself but I smiled up at him deciding to trust him. We arrived at the grand hall and the guards pushed the door open. The people of the court had been seated already, waiting for our arrival as usual and almost at once their heads turned the moment the door creaked open.

The lords were already seated and I could make out a few of the ladies who had chosen to attend and among them, I could make out Lady Ivana along with some of the other ladies. There was something different about her though and I do not know if it’s because she had Lord Skarde right next to her but she looked a little bit pale.

When her gaze met mine, she held them for a minute before she turned her gaze away. Things had been a little bit awkward for us when we were back at my father’s castle. I had taken out my aggression on her and snapped at her. I have not apologized for it which was something I should have done. Ivana might be a cunning woman but she has also helped me even when I had not ask for it, perhaps I should reach out to her when this meeting is over.

I kept my grip on Reagan’s arm as we walked towards our seat. I could feel the gaze of us the entire time, it was always like that whenever Reagan and I walked into the room together. Some of them stared with hopeful eyes, others were more suspicious and even resentful, though I’m positive it was only Marian who felt that way.

I took my seat right next to Reagan who leaned back in his seat, "Alright let the assembly begin!"

Lord Tamran stood up and began the assembly, starting it off with the wellbeing of the people on the street. Then of course they moved on to talking about the rebels about how they seem to be disturbing the peace of the provinces, especially the east where trade routes which had begun to suffer from their rebellious activities.

Lord Tamran with his round belly and overly enthusiastic voice seemed so sure about the rebellions being peasants from the town because who else could dare to try such a thing. "They’ve shut down mostly all the trade routes from Iravia to Frane twice! I say we need to teach these scoundrels a good lesson because if we continue to watch, we will be mocked constantly and they will get bold!"

I tried not to roll my eyes at the way he was talking because he was failing to see that these ’scoundrels’ were our people. Yes we rule over them but I was positive things wouldn’t have gotten this bad if only they had something to eat and some of the Lords cut down their heavy tax payments. Between paying tax to my father and paying another money to the lords of the cut, they will barely have anything to go by.

Reagan was still next to me, one leg over the other, chin rested on fingers as he listened with a silent calm that made the court nervous because no one could knew what he was thinking. Perhaps something genius or something disastrous.

Miguel cleared his throat but not before I saw Nikolai whisper in his ears. "Patrols have already been sent out to estimate what’s occurring in the provinces. Rising violence might be exactly what emboldens them, what we need is precision and strategy!"

That was surprisingly smart! I thought and I could tell Reagan feels the same way because he nodded his head, acknowledging what he said but deep down I knew that he wasn’t the one who had come up with the idea, it had been Nikolai who I also noticed doesn’t speak much in the court assembly.

"Strategy!" Marina snorted, "You speak of strategy when they are burning our carriages and stealing from our storehouse? They are thieves Miguel, there’s no need to strategize but instead treat them like the criminal they are!"

"Citizens!"

"What is that my dear?"

I stared at Marina, "You called them thieves but they are simply just citizens who have lost their patience because of hunger." I said my words heavy in the air, "We shouldn’t treat them like criminals because if we do, then we will be in pushing them into revolt and trust me you do not want that!"

A ripple murmur ran through the court!

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