Chapter 283
Chapter 283. The Devil Shows His Friendliness (2)
Translator: Aura / Editor: SaWarren
In a few hours there would be a tea party.
Rashta arranged the bangs that covered the scar and put on a light, comfortable dress that didn’t strain her bulging belly.
Lately, she felt her body heavier, her legs numb and frequent tugging in her belly. She was going to the bathroom more often and her limbs were swelling even when she was still.
Despite Viscountess Verdi’s efforts to alleviate her discomfort, it didn’t work.
"My baby. It looks like you’ll be born soon."
Rashta whispered to the baby as she caressed her belly.
Recently, she had also been worried about the baby’s sex.
So far she hadn’t cared whether it was a boy or a girl. It was fine with her if it was a boy because it would cement his position as successor at once, but even if it was a girl, she could have a boy later.
Rather, she thought it would be better to have a girl and then a boy.
However, now that she was further away from Sovieshu, she knew that the baby had to be a boy.
The Eastern Empire had never had a reigning empress.
For her child’s sake as well as her own, the baby to be born had to be a boy.
At that moment, someone knocked at the door.
It was a maid.
"A knight asked me to deliver this envelope to you."
The maid extended the envelope to Rashta, then added hesitantly,
"He asked me to deliver this envelope to you and for Your Majesty to return a reply… he also gave me money for doing this."
"How much?"
"A lot."
What was the letter about? Rashta opened the envelope and took out the letter, while the maid waited to the side.
Her eyes ran over the letter quickly. After so many reprimands from Sovieshu, she could now read and write fluently.
After reading the letter, a smile of joy appeared on Rashta’s face.
"Is it good news?"
"It’s fun news."
Rashta went to her desk with the letter in her hand, took out a blank piece of paper and dipped the tip of the pen in ink.
[I do not know for sure if Navier is infertile. However, even though she was married for a long time to His Majesty Sovieshu, she was unable to have a child, that is why I believe it. What is certain is that the reason His Majesty divorced Navier was because of the infertility problem].
‘If Sovieshu thought Navier was not infertile, he would not have divorced her to marry me.’
Rashta thought that Sovieshu’s divorce with Navier was clear proof of her infertility.
Rashta found it fun to write this.
She was thoughtful for a moment and wrote a final sentence that sounded a little kinder.
[But it would be a shame if she lost her position just because of an uncertain assumption. Navier will be a good empress, so I hope she won’t be backed into a corner by uncertainty].
After putting the letter in an envelope and affixing her seal, Rashta handed it to the maid.
Viscountess Verdi began to comb Rashta’s hair again, while she hummed in a better mood.
However, that mood changed as soon as she attended the tea party.
The topic of the soon-to-be-born baby came to the forefront, but it was because of the words of a nobleman who said with concern,
"When the baby is born, hopefully it can grow strong…"