Rosie's Games

Chapter 118: Live 6

THE ASTER EMPIRE

Since that night, Dorothy had been suffering from bouts of pain and this would never sit well with Victoria. The fact that her daughter suffered was because of that woman! Rosalind!

The least that Victoria could do was show her daughter the corpse so Dorothy could burn it and feed the rest to the dogs.

"Are you certain the fall would have killed her?" Victoria asked for the umpteenth time.

"Yes. I am certain of that matter. The rocks are sharp, they would have turned her into minced meat in an instant. My guess is that the body drifted away because of the rain and flooding. The rain was pretty hard at that time and if it wasn't for that, our people would have immediately gone down the cliff to retrieve her body."

"Still, I want to see the body. Any part of her would suffice. Be it her head or her toes or her hair. Anything!"

There was a brief silence before, Loren started speaking again.

"The master has been asking questions about the cure. He said, there might be someone that could help the Young Miss, but we do not know if it would work. For now, the master is inquiring about the matter."

"Something that could cure Dorothy?" Victoria's anger vanished. "Where?"

"In the black market."

Victoria frowned. All sorts of things could be found in that place, but that did not mean that it was true. She needed to talk to her father in person as soon as possible. However, she needed to do that in secret.

Just a few days ago, two women arrived for Martin. Since then, Martin had been staying in their rooms and spending the night with them. Tomorrow, another two women would arrive.

"Loren I have read in the books that once the Blessed one in that generation died, someone else in that generation would be able to replace him or her. Am I right?" She was not too clear about this matter as it had never happened before. She thought she read it from some book in Martin's study, but she had already forgotten what book it was.

She did not want to ask Martin about this now as she did not want to make the man suspicious.

"Yes. That was what the books have said."

Victoria nodded. Again, the books had been filtered by the Blessed families. She could not really trust the information.

"Do you know of anyone that could verify this information?" she asked.

"There is a sorcerer in the slums, but I heard he just left his house and is currently traveling. However, I could ask our people to find someone else to verify this information."

Victoria nodded at that. If that is indeed true then. She cannot let those women bear Martin's child. Her eyes narrowed.

"I wonder," she murmured. "Do you have any medicine that can stop a pregnancy?" She could not risk Martin having another child. It would be better to prevent it from the start.

"I could get some."

She turned towards him. "You already know what to do, right?"

Loren nodded. In response, she waved her hand.

However, just as Loren vanished, the door opened with a loud bang.

Martin walked in, his face dark.

"Is it true?" he glanced at the sleeping Dorothy before glaring at Victoria.

"What are you talking about!?"

"Does she have the curse?" he asked.

"I " How did he find out? She made sure to tell everyone that Dorothy was sick because of traveling. She

"Is it true!?"

"Yes, it is." Victoria gritted her teeth. There is no point in hiding this matter now. Soon, Martin and the rest would know the truth.

"How."

Victoria swallowed.

"Answer me!"

"It was Rosalind!"

"What?"

"I know you would be angry but I "

"The kidnapping was staged," he concluded as he finally connected all the dots. His face turned even gloomier. "You dare harm your own self to punish Rosalind!?" he asked in disbelief.

"You do not understand"

"Oh, I do. I do understand everything. You cannot accept the fact that she would marry a Duke while your daughter is stuck with that Delibar! You Victoria how could you do something so stupid!?"

"Rosalind is nothing but a lowly member of the family! What was wrong with killing her?"

"Have you lost your mind?"

"I have!"

"You "

"Why is it that my daughter has to suffer because of that Duke!? Even if he disliked my daughter, why did he have to do that! He deserves to be punished!"

"So you framed him."

"I had to! You are not doing anything to avenge your daughter! I was the only one who stayed by her side. I was the only one who cared! All you abandoned her when she failed to receive the Blessing!"

"I would never do that to my "

"You already did, Martin!" Victoria said. "You already did. You had forgotten about us and have become just like your father! Obsessed with the Blessing!"

"Without it, there is no Lux family," Martin said. "The Blessing is what makes us who we are! Do you not see this? Why must you always think about yourself? Did you know that Rosalind's death could easily spark a war if the Duke wanted to? The fact that you told everyone that you spotted someone wearing the Duke's uniform was enough to cause a war!"

"I "

"Do not tell me that you only did it because of Dorothy "

"Can we talk about this matter some other time? At least not now." Victoria pleaded. "Rosalind stabbed Dorothy with a cursed weapon. We need to find someone that can heal her."

"That is impossible. Not even father nor I could heal a dark curse caused by a cursed weapon. Unless of course the weapon was not that strong to begin with. But I am guessing just from the amount of darkness that I can smell, that the weapon Rosalind used was potent and had killed at least a few hundred people." Martin's expression grew worse. "However there might be a way."

"What is it?" she asked.

"The weapon. Find it."

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