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"Their deceit was the poison they used against me; now I am the venom that will bring their end." ~Araneae Ruber.
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ULRIC HAD to hold himself from falling off the branch. 'Did she just say good? And she should stay there?'
He looked at his lady, and indeed she had the same reaction and thought as him.
"What? Louisa. That's our mother in jail."
"And? Who goes around laying hands on someone else's child or worst a captain. Even the royal family can't act rashly against the soldiers and military battalion, and you are telling me a mere proxy duchess did so."
Louisa sat up properly from the bed. "Louisa's that our mother, for crying out loud."
Luella acted like she loved the duchess more. 'Louisa could be laying a trap for me… so I better keep my guard up.'
"You keep saying it like she actually liked you a daughter." Lifting her index finger to the side of her head, she tilted a bit.