The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 185: Please her well

Chapter 185: Please her well

" No good, No good!" Duke Cilantro paced inside the underground chamber of the orphanage that he has built, even though the entire building looked good and had a wonderful charm to it with pristine white marble flooring and small angles decorating every corner, Duke Cilantro knew that all the orphanages that he built were nothing but a smoke screen to hide his illegal activities, not one of them was safe. If the Empress suddenly barged inside his territory what was he going to do huh? There were so many secrets, secrets that he needed to guard with his life and yet!

" Did you try to stop the Empress?" He hurriedly asked his aide, they can never let the Empress find out the truth about these orphanages. If she got so much as a wind of the fact that they were selling the blood of phoenix offsprings that too to the dark mages—— Duke Cilantro gulped heavily and his heavy body shuddered. He could almost visualise his head flying off his shoulders.

Duke Cilantro swallowed whatever was floating inside his mouth but even then his throat was parched, the Queen can never find out ... if she found out the truth then he will certainly die!

" What about my uncle? Has he sent any letters to me these past few days?" He asked his aide with an anxious expression. His uncle was the one who came up with the idea, so he should be the one helping him in this predicament! But a second later he realised that he was dreaming too much, his aide stiffly shook his head and said, " We did not receive any letters from the former Duke."

This wasn’t something that was surprising, his uncle who was engaged in all sorts of things would vanish from his mansion every now and then but Duke Cilantro had a feeling that his uncle was deliberately avoiding him but there was nothing he could do, the Empress was on her way here meaning that she has already passed the teleportation gates and if he was to adamantly refuse to let her inside his territory that it might as well be counted as him trying to rebel against the Queen.

There was no other option, he couldn’t do anything but smile and greet the Empress with a beaming face.

Seeing that his master was indeed worried about the Queen’s visit, his aide slowly raised his head and offered his wise words, " Maybe the Queen is really here for taking a look around the territory, after all, we have suddenly increased the taxes and the other duchies have been complaining to the Empress."

Duke Cilantro has indeed raised the taxes of importing and exporting, the reason was simple, it was because the price of raising the phoenix offspring wasn’t small. These things looked like tiny beans but in truth, they were pickier than the princess of his family, they wouldn’t eat anything that wasn’t washed off by the dew of the morning and the fruits and vegetables had to be of the finest quality and the same could be said for the meat.

Bloodied and raw together with highly nutritious, they would not take another look at their meals if he tried to scrimp on them. Even though he was rich he wasn’t rich enough to take care of these small things tantrums at first he ignored them and asked the guards to shove the food down the children’s throats but no sooner they did do that than the phoenix offspring burned alive before they could stop it.

A phoenix if left untainted would rise from his or her flames again but the same could not be said if they were to taint their pure blood. Those kids died and were never revived, the loss was so big that Duke Cilantro had to grit his teeth and loosen his pockets to raise the ones who were still alive.

If only ——

He turned to viciously glare at the boy lying on the floor, his red hair and golden eyes glowed in the darkness, even with just one glimpse one could see the power and vulnerability oozing from his body but Duke Cilantro has long lost such empty emotions because of his greed. He only saw the phoenix kid as his money-earning tree and nothing else, so he raised his feet and kicked the child once and twice in the stomach before shouting shrilly at him, " Why don’t you eat something normal for once? Do you have any idea that because of you, I am going to have so much trouble now!"

Duke Cilantro knew better than anyone that the signature on the document was fake, if the empress was to ask about the document what was he going to say? And there was even the matter of the special knight losing his life.

" Duke as long as we please the Empress wouldn’t it be easier for us to muddle through things?" The aide suddenly spoke up causing the Duke to stop his beating. He glanced at the two phoenix offspring on the ground and sighed in relief at least they still had some breath left in them, or who knows this stupid might really kill them.

His master still needed to rely on the blood of the heavenly shifters to align his soul with the shell he has taken on, there was no way he can allow this man to harm these phoenixes.

" Please her? How should we please her?" Duke Cilantro was stunned, if the Dragon Queen was that easy to please then he would have done that ages ago!

" I know it’s hard work on the Duke but," the aide took out a small curvaceous bottle from his pocket and then handed it to the Duke with a sly smile. " As long as we add this thing into the drinks of the Dragon Queen, she might be really pleased with you."

Duke Cilantro frowned as he uncorked the bottle and then took a whiff of the thing that was sloshing inside the jar. His eyes widened before a wretched smile came to his face. "Let us do this!"

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"This is the Cilantro territory, your majesty." Yakov helped Bree out of the carriage as they looked around the small town that was situated next to the fluctuating harbour. Bree glanced at the shops and the small peddlers and her brows scrunched up slightly from just one look she could see that the town was nowhere as lavish as the taxes that were being paid to it, if anything it was small and much more crowding than the one they just travelled from.

"The tax inflation is unjustifiable," Bree said after just one glance, she never believed that the Duke was actually a good man who built many orphanages to support the young kids but now that she was looking at the sight of the people in front of her, she could more or less understand that there was something fishy going on in this territory.

A man who couldn’t even bother to look after his territory people was actually willing to take out a heavy sum of money to build orphanages? What a joke!

" I know that something is wrong but please do control yourself for the time being your majesty, we cannot let the Duke question our reasons for coming here, he might not be able to move the evidence since the army has already covered his territory nicely but we can’t put the use of magic past him."

Before Bree could say anything a grumpy voice came from behind as he stared at Yakov angrily. " Like hell, that man is going to use magic, I have made sure that he wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the situation no matter what!"

Blaise has been in a super foul mood ever since the morning, he couldn’t believe that Yakov was not only allowing him to get closer to Bree but he even refused to let him sit in the same carriage as his wife! He had to travel this far with the grumpy Aileen and his aide, both brothers looked like they wanted to end each other.

Being stuffed in between them even he the ever smiling Blaise couldn’t help but be annoyed. And now that he saw that Yakov was actually pulling his wife here and there without giving him a chance to so much as talk with her, he was furious!

Ignoring Yakov’s sullen expression he came to stand next to Bree and smiled like a little sun. " Your majesty, did you miss me? Even if you didn’t I missed you a lot."

Bree’s mind went sluggish as she looked at Blaise, she hadn’t expected to see him in fact she didn’t even know that he was here till now. The Blaise of now contradicted with the one in the mirage, though both were smiling at her, Bree preferred the current one. She arched a brow and looked at him before asking, " When did you come?"

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