Behind The Castle's

**TRAITOR**

Gracefully and slowly, Victoria followed Fredrick's steps to descend down the steps of the park. Fredrick immediately shifted the table and two chairs down the steps to get away from the rose plant, after the table was neat and quite far from the rose plant, like a true gentleman, Fredrick pulled a chair for Victoria, who approached her to land her ass there

"Thank you"

Fredrick nodded briefly and landed his buttocks on the chair in front of Victoria. Fredrick looked at Victoria for a moment and finally voiced his thoughts

"Is there any other reason why you hate roses?"

Victoria glanced at Diana who had come with snacks and water

"There"

With a face that became antusia, Fredrick straightened his back and looked at Victoria

"Why?"

While glancing at Diana who had finished filling their table, Victoria cuddled, whether she would tell or not

"Only the past"

Fredrick was getting more enthusiastic

"Tell me"

"Lazy"

Fredrick who could not accept the rejection returned to try

"Oh, I'd have a hard time sleeping if I didn't get your story Vic"

While putting on a lazy and reluctant face, Victoria finally decided to open her story.

"It used to be the scent of a friend of my mother's, but it turns out she was a traitor and even made my mother cry so much that Uncle Thomas intervened and....." Victoria glanced at Fredrick's face which looked very curious even her eyes looked very focused on him. "And made a little commotion that we'll never forget"

"Traitorous? Who's the lady? what the hell is he doing? why is the Duchess crying?"

Fredrick bombarded Victoria with many questions that made Victoria finally take a deep breath

"He was actually a friend of my father's, they met because she was a businessman and often went into business to send goods out of the continent with my father and my father's other colleagues, because he had become a partner, he said, the woman became quite close to my father and often visited the castle, my mother also got to know him and eventually they became close friends, including with us" Victoria glanced at Diana who also looked curious and glanced at Fredrick who had put on a serious face. "One day, my mother often found the smell in my father's belongings, up to a month without anyone knowing, my mother could only continue to cry alone and Lottie found my mother crying in the attic warehouse"

Fredrick furrowed his brows deeply

"Who's Lottie?"

"Ahhh..Maxutku Charlotte, that's her little name we made"

Fredrick nodded

"You give each other a little name?"

"Yes...."

Fredrick's smile rose and looked at Victoria with a sparkle

"How do you make a little name?"

"We make each other names with the suffix letter i. Lottie for Charlotte, Archi for Arthur and Riri for me"

"Riri sounds sweet"

Indifferently Victoria grabbed the whiskey on the table and ignored Fredrick's words

"Continue your story Vic"

Lazily Victoria finished the biscuits in her mouth and placed gracefully the rest of the biscuits in her hands

"After seeing my mother cry, for the first time we saw Lottie so angry that she came to my father's room, the commotion in the room to the front of the stairs made Archi wake up from his sleep, the commotion from Archi, Lottie, my father and my mother made me wake up and try to figure out the reason for the commotion, I just heard the name of the woman being mentioned by Archi while taking out all the words hinaaan for her.

That night was very nervous and scared for me, because for the first time I saw Archi fighting my father. I don't know anything and no one's trying to explain anything to me because I'm still too small but, after a few days, Uncle Thomas came with aunty Jasmine, they said that the woman had deliberately approached our family, including me, with the intention of seducing my father despite all the evidence and witnesses that no one had cornered him but still, he said, that woman had made a little bump in my mother's trust, and it wasn't until a month after that, which I heard the woman's business went bankrupt and she ended up in slavery" Victoria breathed heavily. "I used to like that woman a lot, she was humorous and very kind to me but it turned out that way......"

Gracefully, Victoria raised her water glass while looking at Fredrick and Diana in turn

"That color, I hate traitors and roses so much"

Fredrick immediately glanced at Diana with Diana also glancing at Fredrick, Diana tightened the link of her hand and Fredrick could only thin her lips awkwardly.

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"Food will begin to enter the capital market in three days Your Majesty"

King George nodded briefly as he poured his pen ink over the parchment with a non-staring gaze at his interlocutor

"The availability at the palace was arranged by the lady Dolores and the butler of the kitchen, they had arranged for supplies during the summer"

The Gorge King was still busy with his stint stroke and still did not change the direction of his gaze

"Although for the summer we can fill all the food to be enough, but for the fall we are still not sure we will be able to pass it well Your Majesty, what should we do with the capital and the southern region later?"

This time King George stopped his hand to let the ink on the parchment dry, then looked at his interlocutor

"I know Ed, I've been trying to figure out a way and listen to some proposals for food, and as a result we do need other food for the whole capital, but of course 'the blue one will be as stubborn as his ancestor. For the southern region we can only patch little by little but now the income is good enough so for a while we just do it like this first"

Edward nodded and immediately received a helping hand from King George, who gave a roll of parchment that had just been written in dry ink

"Send this to Duchy tomorrow with a few golden knights under your hands, I don't want any more noise and shouting" King George immediately stood up and headed for the window, both of his gray eyeballs glared far out the window. "It's enough we snatch with punches and cries, after all it's theirs, it's their hard work Ed" The heavy and tired breath of King George made Edward immediately bow in. "Ed.. I hope this is the best way for all my people, because for this I have sacrificed many things, I have lost many, I have hurt many people"

Hearing King George's worried speech, Edward immediately bent one knee to the floor, with his head bowed in Edward conveying his heart

"You've done everything for the people of Your Majesty. God save the King!"

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