William Williams
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Listening to Miss Linda's frank offer, Alexander was frankly a bit surprised. He thought given the cold, harsh greeting just now, she would go on to chastise and scorn Alexander, such as calling him a fool for choosing the obviously losing side. But in a complete one-eighty to her previous attitude, she was now proposing to have Alexander join her. What gives? The mercurial nature of the woman made Alexander confused. "Wha..t?" Hence at first he even thought he was mishearing her, as Alexander…-
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Alexander had little trouble in finding the garden as he expertly navigated the complicated corridors of the huge mansion with the aid of the map, quickly descending the two sets of stairs to finally locate the meeting point. It was a small shaded canopied garden, with delicate branches and verdant leaves interlocking together to create a natural roof that filtered the golden autumn sunlight onto the ground below, casting playful shadows as shafts of golden light illuminate patches of ferns and…
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*Knock*, *Knock*, *Knock* The solid yet polite thuds against the door felt like nails slamming against his coffin to Alexander as his heart skipped several beats. That was how usually these types of assassinations happened right? An innocent knock on the door. Followed instantly by a flurry of furious jabs the moment it was opened, not giving the opener even a second to react. Alexander's overly cautious mind could not help but conjure these various types of fearful scenarios, imagining words…
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After discussing things up until now with Lady Miranda, the best plan that Alexander could come up with to try and turn the situation was this- snitching to the Kaiser family and waiting for them to get involved. In this way, hopefully, while the two lions fought, Alexander would be able to steal their catch like an opportunistic hyena. Or at the very least eke out an advantageous position for his 'down in the muck' ally. And while Lady Miranda was not the biggest fan of going to beg to her…
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Hearing how Miss Linda's lies got an innocent girl killed made Alexander sigh in his heart. Tragically, beating one's servants to death if their mistake was grave enough was a frequent occurrence in most parts of the currently known world. This made the veracity of Lady Miranda's story very likely and caused Alexander to have second thoughts about the potential of working with Miss Linda. "So how did Lord Janus find out at the end?" Thus listening to the story up until now, Alexander then posed…
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Lady Miranda chose to be very clear in retelling the difficulties Alexander would face when trying to negotiate some sort of settlement with the Heeat family- which was that they wanted an abnormally high percentage of the trade "The family wants nine tenths of the profits in exchange for giving such access to the safe routes. However if Quentin is made the family's next head, then they promised they will drop it to one-tenth!" Lady Miranda complained bitterly. While Alexander almost had a heart…
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Alexander kept the presumed use of his new machine to himself for now, not knowing how applicable the contraption would truly be. He had no idea how deep the mines were or if the machine would even be able to perform as expected under real life conditions. It was still in the prototype phase after all. He did not want to let his promise get Lady Miranda's hopes up, only to fail later. Thus keeping that option to himself for now, Alexander moved his back forward from the sofa to at last ask the…
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As soon as Alexander was made aware of the dire economic straits Lady Miranda was in, he had to fight the urge to rudely shout out, 'How the hell do you make a loss on white sugar and glass? They should be more valuable than gold. Even pigs would be able to profit by just selling a few bits and pieces of them.' The number sounded so low in fact that Alexander even had the urge to go check the Margraves family's treasury for himself to verify Lady Miranda's claim. The lady however was incessant on…
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Alexander and the couple cleverly skipped mentioning the fact that Miss Linda and her son might very well have had the support of the former lord of the family at laying claim to the family's seat. Which would then make Miss Linda's son Quentin the rightful successor to the family and that Lady Miranda and Alexander were the usurpers. However, that narrative was too inconvenient for the latter. They dare not say it. And Alexander breathed a sigh of relief that there was no concrete will written…
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'No! How can that be?' At the realization of what Alexander was implying, Lady Miranda felt her head spinning. The lady who had just lost her son could not believe she had been stabbed in the back like this and not even realized. "My lord, what do you mean?" While the much slower Lord Cassius was yet to even wake up to the conspiracy, putting on a questioning face. So Alexander let him in, "What I'm saying is that the former lord might have been in talks with the Heeat family to replace Lady…
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