She gives him a answer

“Was it so strange that I did not kill Mina?”

“According to the law, it is not appropriate to-.”

“Why, because it doesn’t make sense to you how I could so easily drive a loyal subject like you to your **** while being unable to do anything about a mere child? Is that why you thought she might hold my weakness?”

“If I have displeased you-.”

“And I’m obligated to give you an explanation.”

“In my fear that I would not fully be able to protect Your Highness should you be hiding something from me, I was too forward. Please forgive me.”

She wasn’t sure how to treat him. It was awkward to be on the receiving end of loyalty so strong knowing that the person who gave it would kill her.

“If you only give the command, I will handle it quietly.” His words finally got a reaction out of them, like the teacup she was holding her eyes shook.

He was saying that he would get rid of ‘the source of her troubles’ just like they did in the books and movies. she didn’t feel as guilty since Mina wouldn’t be dying in front of her. It could be solved with a nod of her head.

“……Are you willing to do whatever I order you?”

“Yes.”

“I could order you to die right here, right now.”

“…….”

He didn’t even seem surprised. The composed look in his eyes was that of someone who had already considered such a situation.

She wondered if he would really die if she told him to. 'Why are you willing to go so far? Why?'

“I said that I had desired to kill you out of hatred for you. But do you have no will of your own? Do you really want to do all of this in front of someone like that?”

“I am simply doing my duty.”

“If I suppose your words to be true, do you believe that is normal? The idea that I could easily do away with your life if I felt like it? That you would wholeheartedly surrender to that?”

She wanted to know his true feelings. And so, she proceeded to drive him into a corner.

“There is no space to doubt that the duty of a subject is to be loyal to the royal family. How could you say loyalty is wrong.”

At one time, she had tried to imitate the princess. But even if she did, nothing changed. Neither the princess’s destined **** nor the lives of those innocents would continue to be lost up until that very moment.

If what he was showing her were his true feelings, then she could guess that he would have ended up dying while standing by that damn princess, like a fool. That’s why she felt even more frustrated.

“……You asked me the reason. Fine, I will answer you.”

“Your Highness.”

“Dimitri. That man said he loved that woman.”

“……”

“The man who wholeheartedly offered up his body to me for the sake of his land and people, threw all of that away and was caught trying to escape with that woman.”

“…….”

“Tell me, who among these was wrong?”

She saw her face reflected in his eyes. The princess’s, and now her, face.

“It was I.”

“That is not so.”

“Why do you say so?”

“The crime of the one who dared desire Your Highness’s possessions and forgot Your Highness’s grace is truly great, moreover it is illogical to suggest that Your Highness has done any wrong in forgiving her and-.”

“That is enough, don't you think you've done testing me now? Lying was never strong suit Richard.”

"Took you long enough, they speak of the endless scheming inside these walls but palace life has seemed to dull your senses princess."

She placed the teacup down and pushed from her seat strolling up to the handsome man. "Your right about that I'm not as limber as I use to be, despite the excise I get from working my concubines."

She looked over to Richard and saw how what look to be unease as she spoke of the other men she had slept with as she planted herself down on the armrest beside him she couldn't deny another taste of him. "Fuck answers right now, you can tell me later or not at all."

She leaned into another kiss with the knight and fell from the armrest and into his lap. Unlike in public, he didn't shy away from her this time in fact his hand wander down her back and cupped a healthy amount of her ass she provoked a sublet moan from the woman.