Katya Duvernay felt a rare, strange urge she hadn't felt in a long time after one of the emperor's footmen had delivered the news.
She wanted to laugh.
Two of her most useful means of controlling the bastard girl, marriage and the nursemaid, vanquished in a single day.
It was a beautiful plan. Replace the nursemaid's nephew, then pretend to threaten the fake nephew's life in order to make the nursemaid comply. Katya had not been worried when the slow nursemaid had admitted that the princess was likely aware of her dual allegiance - it had been what the empress had been counting on.
