That same day, as Sigrid was having a late lunch, her biggest enemy Emmah was licking her lips, hunger was gnawing at her but she had been been denied a bite of food or a drop of water.
The punishment meted out by the old count were very harsh, beatings and starvation were just some of them. All of the grace that Emmah had earned had died the moment she was arrested for shoving Deanne into a window.
It didn't help that the excitement the old count had when he thought Emmah would be one of Princess Thalassa's bridesmaids had died an unfulfilled dream. He had bragged about it to his friends and when it did not happen, he was embarrassed.
What embarrassed him even more was their family being denied entry to the royal castle at the gates on the day of Thalassa's wedding. White knights that worked for the crown prince and princess had turned away all the guests from the Fairfax family.