The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 210: Late emperor’s memorial

Chapter 210: Late emperor’s memorial

Duke Cilantro naturally didn’t want to take her to the town much less show her the orphanage but surprisingly after a few days, he came to her and suggested that they go to the town and take a look at the children in the orphanage, Bree was, of course, no fool to believe that the Duke might have gotten a change of heart, she knew that something was up but she still agreed with his suggestion, she wanted to see just what the Duke had in his mind and she also wanted to carefully look around the orphanage. Of course, the Duke was no fool and wouldn’t have left any evidence behind much less a clue that will lead her and her consorts to the Phoenix offsprings but Bree was not in a hurry, she was confident in Yakov’s plan.

He might be a crazy wolf but he was a smart man whose plan has never once failed, if not then he would not have succeeded in taking the dragon Queen who was built like an immortal down.

She turned to look at Bloom who was looking at her in surprise and softly explained, " You have to learn how to work as my maid quickly, we don’t want you to attract unwanted attention now do we?"

Even if she was the Queen there were many things that she has to take care of, she couldn’t take the Duke down without a proper reason and that was why she has to look for a way to bring him off the position without startling the council of elders in the capital but the thing was that the Duke was also very smart and seemed to be keeping a very firm eye on her, she has noticed it many times.

A maid or two from the Duke’s mansions would sometimes sneak into the group of her maids and would keep track of what she was doing, fortunately, the maids of the palace were taught well and they knew how they needed to behave in front of others, that was why she didn’t need to worry about it. Even when she introduced Bloom to her maids neither of them asked why and where this young maid came from, they simply followed her orders and did what they were asked to do but that was only because there was no Harley with them anymore.

Bree didn’t know when Harley vanished but apparently, she vanished after the incident that took place at the town plaza where she was suddenly kidnapped, many believed that it was because Harley was involved with the dark mages while many believed that she was simply left behind since she liked to run around so much, in short, no one knew where Harley went making the entire thing even more confusing. She has of course asked Yakov what happened with Harley but the latter simply told her that she didn’t need to worry about it.

How can she not worry about it? The main lead was gone, what was she going to do if the female lead was to leave the stage? What will happen to all the male leads? Bree was sure that the book’s plot was going downhill but there was nothing she could do about it, for the plot of the book to work, she will have to die and she very selfishly didn’t want to die.

Now that she didn’t know what was going on with the plot, she had no other choice but to keep her eyes open and be on alert in every possible way.

" I understand," Bloom nodded as she picked herself up from the chair she was sitting in and then went to the bathroom to prepare a bath for Bree, as the latter has instructed her to. Bree hoped that Bloom would do a good job but when she walked inside the bathroom, she was surprised to find that the little girl has not only added extra flower petals in her bath water but the smell of the scented oil was also too strong, Bree wasn’t someone who liked to smell as if she has walked through bushes of roses and jasmine but seeing the hopeful sparkle in the eyes of the young elf, she could only swallow her criticism back and smile as she said, " You have done a great job."

It was all right, she will have the other maids teach Bloom slowly.

Duke Cilantro might have done some major changes in the town because when Bree’s carriage fluttered past the streets of the small town of Cilantro territory she could see that the residents of the town were no longer dressed in their old washed out clothes, instead, they all were dressed in a particularly chic manner in new clothes that were a bit too new. Bree’s gaze dropped to the ice cream seller who was dressed in resplendent shirts and leathery brown pants trying his hardest not to get his clothes dirty as he offered ice cream to his customers. Surely, the Duke must have sent out some absolutely ridiculous orders to make it like this because she was sure that she saw the lady from the candy store glaring right at their carriage even when she couldn’t see them.

" This is ridiculous don’t you think so?" Bree murmured as she looked at the streets that were cleaned even nicer than they were in the capital, she could no longer see the hustle and bustle of the entire town like she did when she first arrived here, now that she was looking at the silent and careful residents of the territory, she couldn’t help but find it unnatural. " He is more like a tyrant than just a Duke don’t you think so, who in their right mind would order someone to do something like this?"

She has never expected the Duke to be this obsessive with the idea of showing himself in a good light.

Yakov raised his head from the book he was reading and slowly twisted his neck to look at the silent streets before he said, " Bear with it for a while your majesty, I assure you that once everything is done and dusted you can kill the Duke in any way possible, I am pretty sure with the amount of corruption he has committed, an execution wouldn’t be difficult."

After he heard what the Duke has planned for Bree at the so-called ball that he was planning, Yakov wasn’t just furious anymore, he was enraged and so was his wolf. He has never thought that he will see a man who would be stupid enough to target a dragon shifter but every once in a while idiots like the Duke would pop up once in while there was nothing he could do about it given that half of the world’s population had idiots like him all over the place.

And to top his annoyance, even more, Bree was dressed in a long dress that showed off her well-shaped legs, he might sound like a pervert but he did have a thing for well-toned legs and Bree’s just happen to be the ones that he simply adored out right all right, seeing her dressed in that tight dress that showed all her curves nicely, Yakov felt his wolf scratch at his guts as his half hard cock started to press against his pants. It started to rise the second he has seen her dressed in that silvery body-hugging dress and it has been freaking minutes but his not-so-little guy was showing no signs of easing down. Maybe if she stopped shuffling her legs and give him a break then maybe it will go down.

Bree hummed as she kept her head leaning on the window sill and then turned to look at him with a twist of her neck as she frowned and said, " The Duke said that he will be bringing us to the orphanage, right?"

" That’s right," he nodded

" Then why are we heading to the city plaza?"

Blaise who was sleeping with his eyes closed since he firmly believed in ’not seeing and not getting tempted’ even though his nostrils were filled with nothing but Bree’s scent snapped his eyes opened and pushed the window on his side before peeking at his head out of the carriage and cursed, " That damn old man!"

She and Yakov exchanged a look with each other and understood that the Duke might have made a fold-out of them and as the carriage came to a stop and the door of their carriage was pulled open by the driver, they realised that they have really been messed up with because the carriage didn’t stop in front of an orphanage instead it stopped in front of a memorial.

The memorial of the previous Emperor.

Bree blinked her eyes as she turned to look at Yakov and asked, " Don’t tell me that today is the day when I usurped the throne?" From Yakov’s expression, she knew that today was indeed the day when the previous queen took over the throne and the day when the previous emperor died, no wonder the Duke brought her here.