Chapter Seven
Mean Bitches Meet Their Match
As Emilia sat comfortably in her compartment, musing about the interesting turn she suspected her life was about to take, something quite different was transpiring back at the capital regarding the Ladies in Waiting who had abetted her Mistress’ downhill course over the past few years. There were three key conspirators who had been particularly bad influences on Natalie starting when they were all in their mid teens. Their classmates at the high-end private school that had been the incubator for their friendship had called them ‘the Mean Bitches’, and when they caught wind of the name they actually gloried in it. The Queen had been uncomfortable with Natalie’s association with such worrisome peers, but all three of them were offspring of key no
