Your seed is lucky, but you might not be

Within the month, The bells of celebration ring across the nations as the news of the 'Former Queen giving up her title to pursue true love' spread like wildfire. While this development is expected, you're surprised at how both the nobles and common people are together in saying that it is a good thing and express their support for her. However, the festive mood quickly turned into awkward when rumors spread about her being pregnant.

The rumors split the commoners into two opposing groups. The first group thought that Arch Duke couldn't keep his little brother in his pants and prematurely performed the union before the wedding. Another thought the Queen had sold her body and disgraced herself by inviting men into her bed to court them in pursuit of true love. The last group believed that someone had **** her and the Arch Duke was going to marry her in order to protect her dignity.

You don't really care about their opinions because you know that at the end of the day, they would be more concerned with more important things, such as enough food to eat and ample security that would ensure their survivability, not the fate of a disgraced queen. It did annoy you because you had to send in your guards to squash the skirmishes among the three group.

However, the nobility was much different. They wouldn't openly tell anyone their opinion of what happened. But before the news, every one of them would bring their wives and daughters when they came to meet you, and after the news, you didn't say any female nobles.

2 months later.

Arch Duke Wilbur wanted to distance himself as far as he could from the rumors about his future wife's pregnancy. He really did not want the rumors about who was the child's father to be spread during the wedding, so he rushed the wedding plans so that she would look as little pregnant as possible during the ceremony.

The three-day ride is a quiet ride to Lothelsabourg (Arch Duke Wilbur's domain and the future site of your mother's wedding). The ride is made even more awkward by Sir Dietrich's constant obsession with staring at you. By the end of the second day, you have had enough and snap, "Sir Dietrich, you are my most trusted of advisers, but if I have to spend one more day with you glaring at me, I WILL THROW YOU OUT OF THE CARRAIGE! So either speak your mind freely with no fear of reprisal now or make yourself ready to be thrown."

Sir Dietrich lets out a sigh. "My King, it's the nobles. I just don't know how to speak it."

You groan. "Well then, man, say in any manner you can because I can't take one more second of this silent staring."

Sir Dietrich "It's you nobles... To say their loyalty is waning would be... Correct..."

You wrap your hands in your lap to stay calm and to show that you're calm. "What has this kingdom done to make their loyalty wane?"

You can tell that Sir Dietrich is truly afraid to say what he says next, but he forces himself to say it anyway "They believe the right to the former Queen's next child with the Arch Duke has been stolen."

You smirk. "Nothing regarding the former Queen's and Arch Duke's next child has been stolen." This wasn't a lie; the Arch Duke was made well aware that you were going to fuck Lady Beatrix, just maybe not that day.

Sir Dietrich's skill with words showed through as he saw through your deception, "My King, from your choice of words, I can only assume the Arch Duke approved of you having intercourse with his future wife."

You groan, knowing full well that you are caught red-handed. "So how far gone are these Nobles that you speak of?"

Sir Dietrich winces as he says, "If you must know, I firmly believe that if 'these Nobles' were not preoccupied with regular fights in most of their towns, you could have a civil war on our hands... My King."

You "And how many do I still have the full support of?"

Sir Dietrich " A few... In fact, you have actually gained loyalty from two of the three strongest nobles. Primarily because of those two having open distrust and hatred of the Arch Duke. However, if I were to count heads. If a civil war were to break out, you would only have 2 of every five nobility stand with you."

The big three nobility holds roughly 65 percent of all the military power in your country. While the other 20 make up the other 35 percent. So having two of the most powerful noble is enormous, but only having forty percent of your noble on your side is unfavorable. What you need now is time to think of your situation.