Chapter 94

Elinor looked at her mother with wide eyes as her mother looked at her with an expression filled with disgust and hatred.

“Mother…” She murmured too shocked to say anything else.

“Your father told me what you did,” She said, “You sold out your own family for the sake of the king’s favor. I had no idea that you were this greedy as a child,”

“What?!” Elinor spoke up this time, “Mother, you must be mistaken. I never sold our family out. It was father who-”

“Keep quiet!” Her mother said with an authoritative tone and Elinor flinched, “You will not lie to me. Your father told me everything. You were siding with the king all this time and leaving the blame on him,”

“Mother, do you really believe what you're saying?” Elinor asked feeling hurt at how her father set her up with her mother and at how easily her mother believed the worse of her.

“Mother, please let me explain. Father is trying to take the throne away from his majesty. He has organized a coup to overtake the throne and kill his