Five days has passed by since we planned the trap for the little rat. Today, I am sipping tea in the second floor of the Tabby Tea teahouse looking out the window, waiting for the attack to start. The trap had been set, Haktor was leading the attack while Marionne was protecting the castle where mother was having her tea party in the garden.
"My lady, I have the report." Miss bloom came up to me and placed an envelope on the table.
"Have a seat and read it to me." I ordered her.
Miss Bloom sat on the seat in front of me and opened the envelope.
"His majesty, King Carnassius Gromery Dela Elleveire, had ordered the royal sorcerer, Hevitte Yourks, to create the low acting aphrodisiac." Miss bloom glanced at me waiting for my reaction, when she saw none, she took a deep breath and continued. "Prior that day, the king received an audience with Marquis McClare and they spoke about the invitation that Marchioness McClare had received from Her Grace, the Archduchess.
The Marquis was convinced that House Castellan was planning to do something to his wife that he asked the king to let her be escorted by the royal knights. The king agreed to his request and even granted the marchioness with a necklace. The necklace has an ability to bring the person wearing it back to the original place that it was set. For the necklace the marchioness is wearing, it would be the royal palace's main hall.
In the middle of their talk, the king summoned for his concubine, Lady Cathrine Illya Lugar, a princess from the Therodyn Kingdom. She is the sixteenth princess of Therodyn and was sent to the king as a gift of peace. She is a wicked and scheming person, as the report says, killing anyone that she does not like. The Queen and other ladies in the palace would leave her alone in fear of crossing her, even the princesses.
The king asked for her advice about his problems with regards to the Castellans. She was the one who gave him the idea of using the slow acting poison. She even planned who the woman to be harassed is."
"Wait." I raised my hand and motioned for her to stop. "Go straight to the woman who was going to play the victim."
Miss Bloom scanned the report and her eyebrows furrowed.
"The victim won't be playing a victim, my lady." She looked up from the papers. "The lady they were planning to be harassed is not in on this plan. She is just not liked by Lady Lugar, thus she plans on getting rid of her using His Grace. She wants to kill two birds with one stone."
My eyes flashed with rage at the information.
"Who is the woman she is scheming against?" I asked as I tried to calm myself.
"She is the wife of Duke Brouette and the king's sister in law, Duchess Emerald Brouette." Miss Bloom answered.
"What does she have against the duchess?" I asked with a frown. "And the king just went along with it?"
"Like Lady Lugar, Duchess Brouette is also a princess." She explained. "Duchess Brouette is a princess from the Kingdom of Sand, Sumana. But unlike Lady Lugar, Duchess Brouette was not gifted to the king, she met the then prince when he was sent to Sumana as a vassal of the then King. They fell in love and the prince brought her back to Elleveire and married her."
"So Lady Lugar is jealous of her happy ending?" I concluded.
"It seems so, my lady." She replied with a cold voice.
I stared at the cup of tea in my hand as I thought for a moment.
"Do you have any information about House Brouette?" I asked her.
Miss Bloom shook her head lightly.
"I only know the basic knowledge, I did not have their background checked." She answered before raising her eyes to meet mine. "Would you like me to do a background check on them, my lady?"
"Yes." I nodded. "If they are against the king, then they are our friends, aren't they? It would be better to know if they are worthy of helping or not. I do not wish to help people who would one day turn back and bite us."
Miss Bloom looked at me with admiration clearly written on her face.
"I shall check everything to make sure the young lady will be able to make the right decision!" Miss Bloom answered with dedication.
"Good." I looked out the window and raised my lips into a beautiful bewitching smile. "It is almost time."
Miss Bloom also looked out the window and nodded.
"I hope everything goes well." She crossed her arms and leaned back on her chair.
"Everything was planned perfectly by Klaus. Haktor is leading, supported by Klent. Even Sebastiene joined the fray and left me here." Shook my head and sighed lightly. "I have high expectations. I just really hope they catch him alive."
"I do too, my lady." She frowned. "I really want to see his face when he sees me in my uniform."
I chuckled. "You must really want to start the Secret Garden soon, huh?"
"Of course, my lady." She smiled seductively. Her entire demeanor changed into a seductress. "I have always wanted to build an information system that runs everywhere."
I chuckled at how excited she was. She kept me entertained with gossips from around the city until I felt it.
A strong surge of blood thirst.
"It's starting." I stared out of the window that was facing the red district, the place where Karciel heads his illegal business.