The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress
Chapter 40: King Raff’s unknown past.

Chapter 40: King Raff’s unknown past.

Momentarily, Lana, Lama and Brolin experienced some thought provoking silence, pondering on the information that had fallen into their ears.

The two maids had been told not to move or make a sound but they could not help at peeking through the holes in the masks to get a good look at madame Elene.

Had she really deliberately calculated the king and queen by sending a whore into the king’s bed? If yes, why?

Brolin was wondering the same, and he knew for sure that if the king or queen heard about this, Elene Greenfield was a dead woman. She would not die easily, she would be sent to a torture chamber first and then killed.

The three of them were also internalizing new information, a whore had been sent into the king’s bed to ruin the queen’s marriage, was that whore Rina? Other than the secondary consort, no other woman in Eldoria had brought more grief to the queen.

No wonder the crown princess had told them that they would lose their heads if the queen ever came to know that they were aware about her affairs.

"I have no idea of what you speak of." madame Elene denied, averting her guilty eyes from Sigrid’s sharp ones.

"It is not often that the king visits a brothel." Sigrid said. "He has no need for the services they offer, there are hundreds of women serving in the royal castle that are willing to share his bed with or without a title.

Not just inside the royal castle but in the kingdom, all he has to do is ride out of the royal castle on his horse and they throw themselves in his path."

"I am not one of them." Madame Elene stated.

Sigrid shrugged, "Neither am I but that is not the point I am making. You collect information here, I am guessing that you found out that the king was coming here for a secret meeting with Lord Galdriel Night, so you brought out your most prized possession two days before she was supposed to make her debut."

Madame Elene gulped and Sigrid laughed softly, she had hit the nail on the head by piecing together information from the novel, system and deductions after meeting Elene.

"You are clever little minx, how did the king spare your life when he killed all those that knew Rina’s identity? If you lie to me, I will know and then cut off your fingers, one by one until you have no fingers left. Or maybe I will blind your eyes, you cannot read if you have no eyes."

Sigrid had already observed that in Elene’s office were hundreds of books on shelves, truly, reading was her passion. If you wanted a person to bend, you had to threaten what was most precious to them.

"Bring me some hot coal and an iron bar or a tool like that." She ordered.

Elene had been reluctant to talk, when she realized that Sigrid meant business, she jumped up and shook her head.

"A son, a bastard son, the king has one." she blurted out.

Sigrid’s eyebrows shot up in astonishment. "Ohh." she said slowly.

Elene fell back down into the chair and she whimpered, feeling more defeated than she had ever been in such a long time.

"Elaborate." Sigrid encouraged.

Elene sighed, she figured that Sigrid already knew all or most of her secrets so there was nothing left to hide. It was best to find a way out of this mess with her life intact, her children safe and her business continued.

"Before I became madame Elene, I used to live in Sheepfield, a small farming village on the edge of Brackenworth city, leading into medicine valley.

Before the war with Nemoris, the crown prince, or current king and his guards came to Sheepfield to gather herbs and find some miracle flower that was supposed to help in saving the life of the sick former king.

They lived there for three months and during that time, he met a girl named Risa Ann Marcella, she was a servant for the doctors that lived in medicine valley and she acted as a messenger between the doctors and the crown prince.

Risa was beautiful, she looked a lot like Rina but softer and more easy going, she was the kind of woman whose beauty attracted everyone, she was so kind that she lacked a mean bone in her body.

She liked to pick flowers, sing to the sheep, laugh at wind, treat the sick for free, tell children stories, my God, she was like sunshine." Elene’s eyes went a little misty. "A light that never went out until the crown prince fell in love with her.

He liked her easy going nature, the way she run through fields of flowers with her hair down laughing so lightheartedly. He loved her beautiful face and gentle ways, how she had no scheming bone in her body, how she danced when the moon was rising.."

"The blossoming moon flower.." Sigrid muttered.

Madame Elene heard her and she nodded, "The crown prince fell madly in love with her, he pursued her aggressively and made her his own. She did not want to be but he was the crown prince and she was an ordinary girl, she could not exactly say no so she just gave in. I warned her to be careful and guard her heart but he made her many promises which confused her.

He promised that he would not marry the Kensington bride that had long been betrothed to him but her. That he would take her to the capital and give her a big wedding, she would live a noble woman he would plant gardens of flowers for her.

He promised that he would not restrict her freedom to study medicine, her son would inherit the throne and he would have no other wife but her. All that and many other promises which made all the young maidens of Sheepfield jealous, Risa had made it out, she was lucky.

What only I, my sister Francis and two other women in the village knew was that Risa got in the family way and shortly after that, the crown prince left Sheepfield promising to return for her."

Madame Elene scoffed, "You can guess what happened next, the king died before he could arrive in Doria with the miracle cure, there was a struggle for the throne which lasted a year. Crown prince Raff Maximus married the Kensington bride and he successfully became king Raff Maximus."

She slammed clenched her fist, "Do you know how heartbroken Risa was when she heard the news? She had already given birth to a son for him, she had been waiting for more than a year and he never once sent word to her. He did not send anyone to pick her up as he had promised.

Everybody in the village knew that she had given birth out of wedlock, she was mocked and looked down on, the people called her a loose wench, her father could not stand the shame so he threw her out of the house and I took her in.

I witnessed as the light in her eyes faded, she became thin and sickly. Her son was only two years old when she died, the doctors said it was an unknown illness but I reckon a broken heart was what did her in. There was not a day that went by without her crying herself to bed."