Grace was fuming inside with anger as well. She was going to be the daughter-in-law of this family, but Natalie had started to act like one.
She turned to Aeldric. "Mr. Riverdale, what is she doing here? Isn’t she aware that Aiden and I are going to marry?"
Aeldric’s expression turned grave. He was the one who had invited Natalie here, expecting some other outcome, but...
"I am here because Mr. Riverdale personally invited me to attend your wedding," Natalie answered her, a light smirk playing on her lips.
Grace looked at Aeldric with shocked expressions. Why would this old man do this when it was already tough for her to get Justin’s attention—and now this woman was here, so how was she going to do it?
"I invited her to let her see where she stands and who’s the real mistress of this family," Aeldric assured Grace. "Once you marry Aiden, you will be the legal mistress of this home and his wife. We don’t consider marriages that happened outside the Eastern Country as legal once here."
Grace felt relieved, and her lips curved into a smile as she looked at Natalie—but it didn’t last long with what she heard next.
"Justin," Natalie said, "that means we don’t have to get divorced for you to marry another woman in this country?"
"We don’t need to," Justin replied.
"Woah! That’s a great relief," Natalie said happily. "I can keep being your Queen, while you can have those useless concubines on the side. I don’t mind having a few sidekicks for myself."
"As long as you like it," Justin replied smoothly, adding more food to Natalie’s dish. "Eat well."
Grace gritted her teeth, seeing how Justin sided with whatever Natalie said. "Who are you calling a sidekick?"
Natalie offered her wicked smile. "You’re angry—that means you understood your place, Ms. Hartz. Haven’t you read history? Kings had one Queen, and the rest were just useless playthings... Oops... I mean, concubines."
"In this country, your marriage means nothing. That means I would be the Queen, and you are no better than a mistress," Grace spat out.
Natalie chuckled, "All the best with being a queen whose husband loves only his mistress and spends all his nights with her, while the queen remains untouched and lonely for a lifetime."
"He would fall for me and—"
"Justin, would you?" Natalie asked, as she looked at him.
"I only love you. Others are just a nuisance," Justin replied as he fed Natalie with his own spoon like a caring husband.
Justin was quiet and went with whatever Natalie was doing. He decided to let Natalie have fun and take out the anger that she must have felt when she received the wedding invitation. He knew he way of taking out her anger was being savage and destroying the person with no crumbs left behind.
Even if she killed someone here out of anger, he wouldn’t mind. She didn’t deserve to go through any humiliation.
On the side, Meira was eating quietly with her head lowered. She couldn’t help but admire Natalie for how she was dealing with the annoying people in this house.
While Noah ate as if he could hear nothing at all. He was used to Justin and Natalie running over other people entirely, so he was immune to it.
Aeldric didn’t know what to do. This woman, Natalie, was simply infuriating. If she and Justin had argued over anything, that would have been better—but the scene was something else. He didn’t want to touch Justin’s bottom line before the wedding, as he needed it to happen without any issues. And he knew, just like his father Alexander, Justin’s bottom line was his wife.
He had to be patient and let them have some fun until he achieved what he wanted.
Grace looked at Aeldric for help, but the man said, "Grace, wait till the wedding is over. Everything is yours."
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