The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress-Chapter 29: The virgin prince no more.

"Never," the duchess firmly grabbed Sigrid’s arm, making her granddaughter look her in the eyes. "Never Sigrid, you are never to fight any battle alone, magical or non magical. What you are saying is quite unthinkable to us, you have to understand that it is not that easy to digest. However, I know that you would not make up such a story out of thin air without a good reason.

Even though I do not understand what is happening, you have my full unconditional support. I say it is better to err on the side of caution than to assume all is well and end up losing our heads."

"In that case I will do the same but your father and brothers must be warned as well, we should not allow Mirena or her daughter to step foot in this estate ever again. We should start looking for good matches for your second and third brother so that they are not fooled by that girl." Iryne said, with her brows pulled together.

"Why don’t we just get rid of Mirena and Emmah, permanently?" The duchess asked.

Sigrid shook her head, she had also considered this option but the system had told her it would not work, the halo would protect Emmah as long as it was at full strength.

"It won’t work, she is protected by magic."

That was the best answer she could come up with as she could not say Emmah was a transmigrator with a lucky halo.

All three women maintained a brief minute of silence, worried about the future or thinking about other possible solutions to their problem. Eventually, Sigrid tired of the silence, things had to be taken one step at a time anyway.

"Let’s move slowly and carefully, remember that she is not the only one we have to be on the look out for, the king, consort Rina, the Ye family and some other noble houses and princes are also watching us. We should time our moves appropriately, for starters we should abandon the Eastern boarder and surrender our soldiers to the king."

"That is..that..no." Duchess Mila responded.

"Grandmother, the stronger we are, the more the king is determined to break us down. Don’t you know that the tall tree attracts the wind?

We are giving up tired injured and aging soldiers but not our knights, what we will be doing is buying safety for a while.

Neither Rina nor Emmah or others will be able to pit us against the royal house as long as we appear to be extremely loyal to the throne.

Also, it will help us consolidate our forces in the capital, our war is not outside, it is here in the heart of Eldoria so it is best for all the Thorin’s to be here where we can control everything."

Emmah, the princes, the king, consort Rina and all their enemies were in Doria, it only made sense if the Thorin’s were in the same place.

Sigrid spent the entire afternoon at the duchy, discussing how to disband the army under the Thorin command and the retirement of her brothers from the service of the king, temporarily.

Later, new servants were brought onto the estate and the plan to start planting coffee was hatched. After what she considered to be a successful day, she back to the vale before the sun set.

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In the middle of the night, miles away from Doria the army that was being led by Roland came to a stop besides a river that led into the Luminous forest which separated the towns of Eldertwead and Faerie falls.

After journeying at a fast pace for an entire day and half of a night, the horses were exhausted and were the knights that were riding them.

They set up camp to rest, started fires and some found their way to the river to wash their bodies.

Roland was one of those in the river, he and Benjamin had found a more private place by the rocks and their knights that were also washing up had formed a circle of protection around them.

"You look tense your highness, we have been on this journey for a night, an entire day and now night again. Not once have I seen a smile on your face." Benjamin said lightly, flashing his usual easy going smile at Roland. "What is bothering you?"

Rudbeck, shaggy knight beard besides Benjamin guffawed. "I would say that it’s because he was dragged away from his bride in the middle of the knight. I don’t think that I need to explain what happens between a husband and wife on their wedding night."

Some of the other knights snickered, some whistled and one even moved his body mimicking that act of thrusting.

"You must have the worst luck in the world your highness, for such a thing to happen on such a night." Lord Evermore, another of Roland’s closest friends and knights said.

"They would have had to drag me out of the bedchamber kicking and screaming." Another said and the knights laughed crudely.

Roland did not grace them with a response, he shot them glares that they were used to so they responded by teasing him even more.

"I heard that your bride gave you a black eye before the wedding." Benjamin snickered. "Is it really true?"

Roland chuckled, she did not just give him a black eye, she had punched him in the ribs and matched him toe to toe in a fight. His mind was drawn back to that fight, the excitement he had felt and the warmth of Sigrid’s body plus the fierceness in her eyes.

Without intending to, his lower body reacted in an unexpected manner.

"Son of a bitch! put that thing away Roland." Lord Evermore pointed to Roland’s obvious erection.

The others did not react, they were all men, who had not seen something like this, they all experienced it anyway.

"Is that a smile I detect on your face brother?" Benjamin asked.

"I believe it is." Rudbeck said.

Roland abandoned the smile, turned around and left the water, he was still thinking of Sigrid, something that was unusual.

"Do you know why he was smiling?" Lord Evermore asked Benjamin.

"He consummated his marriage last night, if I had any guesses, that would be it." Rudbeck laughed loudly. "Our virgin prince is virgin no more."

The secret Phoebe had worked had for was not a secret in this group of men, the reason why Roland was a virgin however, they did not know. They just assumed it was because he was always busy and tangling with women did not interest him.

He liked them just fine but he did not give his attention to any because he was a royal, any woman he touched was bound to be a subject of interest in a positive or negative light.

He was also the crown prince and he could not afford to father any bastards or else they would become a threat to his legitimate heirs later in life.

While the others laughed crassly, Benjamin looked at Roland who was now standing at the shores of the river, drying off his body. He wondered if it was true what the others suspected, that he was a virgin no more.

Given how much his brother detested Sigrid, was the consummation of their marriage really possible?