“So let me get this straight.” Yulien patted his lips with his forefinger. “My dear brother actually called for his favorite lover and ordered his guards to break her hands just because his wife said so? You saw this with your own eyes?”
“Yes, Your Highness.” Blaine nodded awkwardly, sending Kassian an apologetic look. Kassian remained uncharacteristically quiet in his seat. He hadn’t said a word since giving his greeting and he looked even more frustrated than Yulien himself, who had spent the last thirty hours going over the final details of the reform for the new agriculture policy that was supposed to be implemented throughout the Empire two years ago. “I was able to stop him before it was too late. Her Highness Raena figured he might really do it because she summoned me a few days pr
