21
“I can’t believe Astrid was Renaldo’s daughter. I’ve known her for such a long time.” Eivora said.
I nodded as I took a bite of the best pastry I had ever eaten in my life. We have been in the castle for a fort night already. It’s taken us all that time to clean up the mess Renaldo and his son had left behind. I can’t believe these two men had lived the way they had. They were filthy men, abusive men. Most of the people here had been his people from when he took over my village. Very few were my people. Every one of them pledge their fidelity to me and my husband the first chance they got.
I was stunned to see that even though these men lived the way they had they still managed to save money. The ledger books showed there to be a lot of coin stashed in the office of the castle. There
