Chapter 232: The Gift-2

"I didn't send the gift earlier because I thought the princess might not appreciate the gift from me after what transpired on the day of your wedding announcement," minister Mormond explained.

"And after all, I'm just a small minister of the court while she is a Princess of human land. She must have got the fortune in her dowry," minister Mormond explained and that's when Donovan lifted his eyebrows.

"I thought how my small present matters to her at all," his tone was still polite but he knew where he was leading the show. 

To add fuel to fire even his wife who he has brought as plus one walked forward.

"What are you saying milord, don't worry, a gift is a gift no matter if it is expensive or cheap," the woman with dirty blonde hair said.

They had successfully brought the topic of Silja's dowry and instantly some people who were already against a human being wife of Donovan started to murmur.

"Thinking about dowry what did lady Silja get in her dowry?" One of the women asked. Naturally, they were interested in this kind of thing.

"Well, the marriage ceremony wasn't held in front of everyone so no one knows exactly what king Evan has gifted to his daughter," another man added.

It was custom that the girl's dowry will be announced before the marriage ceremony but since that never happened everyone was curious.

Silja who heard this looked at Benjamin.

Her parents weren't in the north on the day of the wedding. On top of that everything has happened so out of a plan that she hasn't thought about these things.

Benjamin wasn't happy for this marriage so he might not have prepared anything.

And both Silja and Benjamin had come to the North in a hurry with no intention of marriage so they didn't have anything that they could present as a gift to Silja.

This fact was known by many and minister Mormond has taken advantage of it. He has already fuelled the fire and once the topic was started he retreated slowly in the back.

Minister Mormond knew his limits and thus he wanted to have some leverage. As long as others were doing work for him he would stay silent.

But what he didn't know was that Donovan had already marked his name.

Everyone was already talking about these things but no one had the guts to come in open to say something except some.

"Huh, what dowry you guys are talking about. A princess of a peasant is no more than a peasant. What might her poor father have given her apart from some seashells," it was then a thick voice rang in from behind. Everyone craned their heads to look back to find the Grand Duke standing at the back. 

The man was looking very haggard with deep lines on his face.

Some of the people have already noticed that something was wrong with the man today. 

The man's eyes were bloody red while his steps were unstable. The wine was spilling from his glass which was held Clumsily by him.

It was evident that the man had drunk more than he could digest.

The Grand Duke was a man of showing off, he would never miss a chance to show off his power or wealth. Nor does he prefer to make public appearances in such a sorry state.

But people didn't pay much attention to his appearance because the words he said were very arrogant.

He is openly called Silja peasant. Offending royal family members like this was not a good thing.

"Grand Duke, I think you are not in your right state of mind," it was king Zachary who stood up from his chair and walked forward.

"I-I'm not in the right state of mind? It's you…you…" the man walked forward and pointed his finger at Zachary.

"Y-you are not in the right state of…of mind to let your son marry such a woman," the grand Duke shouted. 

Zachary was about to call guard but Donovan stood behind him. And signalled him not to say anything.

Zachary narrowed his eyes on his son.

"This is the time that we remove him," Donovan slowly said in a low voice that only Zachary could understand.

But Zachary wasn't least pleased.

He understood that Donovan wanted to remove the grand Duke from his position but this wasn't the right time.

The court was already in such a mass for last past few months. 

And he couldn't afford much chaos.

They had already offended Lord Gracia - Jade's father by breaking the initial marriage agreement.

The whole family of the Duke of Rockshir was in their prison.

Because of his sister, lady Olivia, lord Joshua was now against them.

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Because of the connection of Helena house, Harthem could rebel anytime.

There was much more chaos.

Zachary believed in Donovan's capabilities but right now the situation was not in their favour at all.

All the big families of the north were standing against them.

They one signalled and the whole north will break in chaos.

Not to forget that Witches and dwarfs were standing on the edges to take control.

In such a situation they could not afford to lose such a close alise as Grand Duke. Grand Duke was in such a higher position and changes in such a position will make everything unstable.

But to Zachary's surprise, Donovan didn't listen to him and instead of calling the guard to take away the drunk man he stood there casually watching the show.

"I told you not to touch him now," Zachary murmured in anger.

They had already discussed this and Zachary has given clear order to not to do anything about the Grand Duke for now.

"I know what I'm doing father," Donovan said in a very authoritative voice.

And Zachary glared at his son for using such a voice at him.

He was the king while Donovan was his son. 

They were in public so he didn't want to fight with him now but that doesn't mean that he will take this offence lightly.

And Donovan knew that well. He might be smart and the strongest support of his father but his status was still below him as kin and in the hierarchy of court also. 

By setting up today's show he has ignored his father's instructions and he was going to pay the price for it.

But Donovan wasn't afraid of that. He will decide what he wants.

Everything happening today was planned by him.

"Milord, please come with me," the old man was murmuring something for a long time which was hard to decipher

Sensing that situation was going out of hand one of the servants of the Grand Duke which he brought with him walked forward to take him away.

But Zivan walked over and stood beside his father and brother.

"Stop," he ordered the servant who was ready to take the man away.

King Zachary narrowed his eyes on his second son. He couldn't believe that Zivan was also ready to go against him.

Zivan slowly smiled at his father. A kind of smile that he gave him when he was sure that everything was in control.

Zachary's nostrils couldn't help but flare. But there was nothing he could do at this moment.

"Let sire Markus speak his mind. After all, we have to know what our courtiers think about the future queen," Zivan's words rang in the hall.

He said every word in a very loud and clear manner.

And when he said future queen everyone looked at him like he has grown two horns over his head.

It was a well-known fact that Donovan was the eldest and was the most capable to take the throne. But even after this many years, king Zachary has yet to announce the name of the crown prince.

And many have thought that the reason behind it might be Abrielle.

After all, she was the queen and Donovan wasn't her actual son. So she might want her son as a king. And that's why king Zachary was delaying the matter.

So many speculations were going on surrounding this topic but none of the members of the royal family has said anything about it.

But now suddenly Zivan said it made an uproar.

"Huh, Queen? Is she even worthy? How could such a weak human rule over us powerful dragons?" Grand Duke looked sober now but his words were still harsh as if he didn't care about offending anyone anymore.

"If you continue this way sire Markus you will lose your position," one of the ministers walked forward to handle the man. But hearing his words the grand Duke started to laugh hysterically.

No one knew why he was behaving in such a way except for Donovan.

After all, the man who has nothing left doesn't have any fears to lose.

He has already lost everything he has the night before.. And today's outburst was the result of that.

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