Chapter 155 Bitter Awakening

• For all the coaching speeches I’d given myself, what he said now was the last thing I expected him to charge me with, and I reacted instinctively.
• His voice was calm as he clearly pronounced his accusations. “You let the King tell you what to do, keep you here as a pet, and tame you to his hand. You let Lord Bartholomew steal bits of your realm from beneath your nose. Filtering goods and servants into Waterway.”
• I gaped at him. “He wouldn’t do that!”