Checkmate

'Checkmate.' Tori leisurely mocked the two in her mind. Though her façade was an awkward queen who felt uncomfortable from the brewing tension in the dining room, she was quite worried if her innate feelings would betray her. After all, she was enjoying this dinner so much that she could feel this feeling whenever she had an orgasm – and that was saying something for Tori.

"Your Majesty, can I express my honest opinion?" The haughty tone of the baron's daughter spoke. Her sassy attitude was not a surprised for everyone. But to be able to speak first even when she was not asked first by the emperor or by the Golden King was only a full proof that she was indeed the spoiled young miss of the most powerful Ducal House in the empire.

The Dowager Empress Aurina Eckrett grinned as she drank from her champagne glass – knowing that her son hated to be disrespected like this.