The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress
Chapter 156: Do you feel guilty?

Chapter 156: Do you feel guilty?

Roland wanted to throttle his wife’s maids. He wanted to pick them up by the neck like dolls and throw them out of the window. They should have held onto Lettice tighter or fallen on the ground first so that Sigrid could have a soft landing.

They were aware of her pregnancy and failed to share it with him and as a result, Sigrid was behind closed doors being attended to by two doctors and a mid-wife. He had no idea how much damage his wife and child had suffered.

"Is this how you protect your Lady?" he growled at them.

All the maids had no response, nothing they said could satiate the crown prince. They knew that that the only reason why they were still standing was because they were Sigrid’s closest maids and she would displeased if something happened to them.

General Paxton put a hand on Roland’s shoulder and squeezed once, comforting his son-in-law.

"It will be okay son."

Roland felt the comforting touch but it barely comforted him. The words of his father-in-law held no meaning, how was it okay after all? Just yesterday he had imagined the children he would have with his wife running around on the grassland, minutes ago he had just learned that Sigrid was pregnant. And at that same time, his wife was injured.

He had not got to experience the happiness of being an expectant father, nothing could happen to Sigrid and the baby.

Roland approached the door to the bedroom, desperate to make his way inside but the duchess and Deanna denied him entrance.

"I just want to make sure that she is okay."

Duchess Mila sighed, "You are the crown prince, you are not allowed inside the room whether she is bleeding or having the child. Your highness, I implore you to keep your clam."

Roland clenched his hands and backed away, he joined duke Thorin and sat down on one of the chairs that had been brought over by the knights. Where Roland appeared anxious, the duke was calmer but somber faced.

As for Lady Iryne, she was already wiping tears from her ears and blaming herself for noticing the pregnancy sooner. If she had not been so taken up by The rise of Lady Blanche, she would have seen some signs perhaps.

The doors opened and two doctors stepped out along with the mid wives.

"How is my wife?" Roland rushed to them, asking at the top of his voice.

One of the doctors, an imperial doctor that always traveled with Roland smiled. "The crown princess is okay your highness, the baby is strong...."

"I am okay, we are okay." Sigrid cut in as she appeared in the open doorway, walking out casually. "Can we go on a tour of the village now?"

Everyone was very relieved to see her, Roland swept her into a hug before Duchess Mila pulled her away from him.

"You are pregnant, how could you keep such a big secret?" She raised her hand and lightly slapped Sigrid on the back. "Have you lost your mind? This is the kind of news that you share with your family, especially your husband. Do you have any idea how important the child you are carrying is?"

Sigrid nodded, she knew how important the child was, just for a different reason that everyone thought. She had shed a few tears when all the bargaining and pleading failed to convince the bank to let her have the baby. Once the tears dried up, she apologized to the unborn baby and made her up to use the pregnancy to her advantage. She could take down a few enemies by framing them for harming a royal heir.

After so much fussing and advice from her mother and grandmother, they set out for Stormwind village. Everyone else got to ride a horse, Sigrid had to take the carriage and it was stuffed with cushions to ensure that no harm came to her or her stomach.

Cosmos rode beside the carriage, and as always he had something to say to Sigrid about her actions and choices.

"Do you feel the slightest guilt?"

"For what?" she responded, unbothered. She knew what he was asking and pretended that she was unaware.

"Don’t play the fool miss retired villain. You know that you cannot keep the pregnancy and yet you have that man excited. He is already ordering for a baby crib and other things to be made. Sigrid, he has sent word to the king, I am certain that you both will be summoned to the castle as soon as you return to the capital." Cosmos shook his head, picturing the look of devastation that would come over Roland’s face when the child was gone.

"I have no choice." she answered sharply. The bank had given her no choice, she was simply making the best of her situation now. What mother would not want to have a baby that she longed for so much?

Not only would the child have tied her and Roland together, it would have been her first child in both lives.

"You could have chosen to terminate it alone, nobody would have ever known."

"And I would have been the only one to grieve him or her which is not fair to my child." she responded softly, sadness in her voice. "Even though this child is not meant to live, but at least he will serve a purpose in saving my life so my child deserves respect. Besides that, the baby deserves to be remembered by his father who wanted him as much as I did and other members of the family that were waiting to love him. He deserves a plaque, a place in the tomb of the royal family. I will give my child a funeral."

She would not pretend that the baby had never existed.

"Honorable intentions and grief mixed with scheming. For the first time, I actually feel sorry for you Sigrid, my heart breaks for the choice you should never have had to make. If I had known about this beforehand, I would have told you to take some contraceptives." Cosmos sighed. "Which family do you intend to take down?"

Sigrid thought of the families that remained, the strong ones were only two. The Ye’s and the Windrider’s. The Windrider’s were powerful, the trick she was planning to pull might injure them but it would destroy them.

The Ye’s on the other hand...they were stupid enough to fall for her plot. With them gone, their mines would be up for purchase. The authority over magical gem mines could be returned to the mage estate.

"The Ye family."

Sigrid touched her stomach and fought the urge to scream out loud in agony. She clenched her teeth and held back the tears. If it had been possible, she would have preferred a child to a weapon.

Maybe she could visit the bank in person and plead or trade. Surely, there was something that could be done.