The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 211: Dark ink

Chapter 211: Dark ink

Dedicating todays Chapter to 394everr

Bree stared at the small memorial that was being held in front of the town plaza and could help but shake her head, her gaze fell on the makeshift shrine that was next to the pasta salad that was being distributed by the people of the town, countless bouquets were resting in front of the big portrait of the man who looked a bit too similar to the dragon queen. With his long raven hair that framed his face and amber eyes that glowed despite the man being nothing but a still portrait, Bree knew at once that the man was none other than the father and the late Emperor of the Dragon Queen, there was a lot of things that Bree found uncomfortable in this world but ——

Gate crashing a memorial of a dead father who was killed by his own daughter, that has to be a new low and it just so happened that she was possessing the body of that particular daughter who beheaded her father on the same throne upon which she sat, Bree of course never pitied the late emperor, if the Dragon queen was a philanderer and a careless ruler, the late emperor was a cruel tyrant who cared only about his own pleasures, so of course, she had no sympathy for the late Emperor.

But now she was standing in front of his memorials like a clown who was pushed into a funeral house to tell the mourners a joke about the cat, dog and ant.

" This has to be a joke," she said as she looked at the people who were looking at her in just as much surprise as Bree was sure she too was showing on her face, she hadn’t expected something like this to happen and she has never once cared about finding out the day the late emperor died after all the Dragon Queen has never cared about this particular day but as someone new to this world, she should have been careful, she should have tried to find out more about the dragon queen and her family, this way she would not have been blindsided like this but there was nothing she could do now, the carriage was standing in front of the memorial already and if she was to turn around and leave, she was sure that the council will have to say something to her about her lack of care towards her own dead father.

Yakov and Blaise both turned to look at the Duke who has just wobbled out of his carriage and glared at him, finally realising why the Duke has suggested bringing them to the adoption home today because Bree has never cared about her father after she beheaded him, they have completely forgotten that the empire still held a memorial for the previous Emperor, too many he was nothing but a tyrant but of people like Duke Cilantro who were soaked in the mud of corruption, the late emperor was a hero. That was why officials like Duke would hold a memorial for the Late Emperor, something that never or hardly happened in the capital.

" What is the meaning of this Duke?" Yakov asked, impatience flickering on his face as he looked at the man in front of him, because he was too busy thinking about how he was going to disrupt the Duke and his uncle’s plan at the ball, he completely forgot about this day. The Queen has of course gone through the ceremonies that the council asked for and fully regained control of the Empire after mourning her parents for three months but she has never mentioned them again and even if the person in front of him wasn’t Bree, such a thing being thrown at her must have shocked her to her core.

But more than being upset with the Duke, Yakov was more furious with himself. How can he forget such an important thing? How in the world this did thing slip off his mind?

" Maybe he believes that he is living a bit too comfortably, don’t you Duke?" Blaise said as he turned his head and flashed a smile at the Duke, though this smile would have caused many women to swoon, it terrified the duke to the point that his body trembled along with the many rolls of fat. He almost slumped to the floor under the glare that Yakov was shooting him but with Blaise’s ’smiling tiger’ gaze aimed at him, the Duke was simply terrified out of his wits.

However, he remembered the ’plan’ that he came up with at the last moment and decided to grit his teeth and just go along with what he had in mind, if he backs down now, then everything will go down the drain. So, after giving one last pep talk to himself, the curled his lips into a smile and looked at the two consorts and the Queen. "It’s nothing, it’s nothing...please don’t think about it too much, I have been busy with work and this day completely slid my mind, in fact, I don’t really hold a memorial it is the people who miss the Late Emperor and would do some social work by helping the needy and something along the line, I have asked them to stop once and twice but they have retaliated against the orders saying they could not mourn the death of their beloved leader."

Bree could see just how beloved the late emperor was given how the social workers looked stressed and upset while serving the others, most probably it was on the Duke’s orders that they have to push themselves to do something like this.

Speaking quietly such that no one other than Bree and her consorts would hear him, the Duke silently spoke, " My queen, if I remembered that today was the day of the memorial I would have never brought you out of the palace but now that we are caught up in this situation, why not offer a flower to the late Emperor——"

" Duke, do you think that you are in any position of asking me to do that?" Bree quietly asked as she turned her head and looked at the Duke with a gentle voice. However, anyone who knew her will be able to tell that she was upset, not only because she was being fooled like she was an idiot but because she was suddenly brought to a memorial when she has no reason to be there.

The Duke choked but he did not retreat instead he softly said, " Your majesty, if you turn around today then there will be a lot of rumours regarding your act, I am afraid that the council will get really unhappy with you if such a thing happens."

" Are you threatening the Queen?" Yakov took a step towards the Duke but Bree pulled him back, she knew what the Duke was trying to do. She could also sense that something was really weird with his sudden sinister desire to bring her and the consorts to the memorial but she also understood that they couldn’t make a move right now.

So, she took a breath and then turned to the woman who was behind the Duke carrying a bunch of white roses and said, " Give me a dozen of those." She didn’t care about the Late Emperor, this man was nothing and no one to her, with the Queen gone, she couldn’t care about him but as she took the bouquet of white roses, dull anger ignited in her chest, it was only then did she realise that Saphira was furious upon seeing this man again.

She understood her anger, even if Bree hated to admit it. Both she and the Dragon Queen had really terrible luck when it came to having good parents, she too hated her parents despite them being the two people who brought her into the world, if something like this has happened to her then she too would have been furious.

But they have something more important to do, that was why Bree inhaled a calm breath and crouched down to place the white roses in front of the makeshift shrine but no sooner did she do that, than someone grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

Bree didn’t even get to see what was happening when she was smashed into a firm chest and then suddenly the entire plaza was filled with screams as Blaise shouted at the knights to make haste and catch the culprit. Catch the culprit what did he mean by culprit what happened?

She blinked her eyes to see what was happening but Yakov held her head tightly stopping her from pulling away and she couldn’t help but frown as she stopped struggling and said, " What is happening?"

No one replied behind her she could hear the duke profusely apologising, having enough she pressed her hand against Yakov and pushed him away from her and it was only then did she see the dark ink that was splashed on his back, behind Yakov was a man who was shouting profanities trying his best to escape from the knights who were dragging him away.

It only now did she realise what exactly was the plan of the Duke.