Chapter 121
“Hahahahaha.” Even Zara laughed as I told her. “And here I thought I would have to lower myself to ask for help from him.”
Redford, in his cleverness, ended up helping us out, giving us exactly what we needed. In his mind, he was keeping an eye on us, and he had no idea that he was giving us the witnesses who would testify to our innocence and zero involvement in his death.
“Now,” Zara said, straightening up after laughing for a long time, “We need to prepare ourselves. It is better to leave as soon as possible because the poison takes about two weeks to manifest. There would be some signs, but Redford would probably ignore them as his own disease.”
No, there wouldn’t be any, but there was no need to overcomplicate things by saying that.
I nodded and replied, “Yes, Lady Zara. Now we just need a cause as to why my family is going with us on this venture.”
“That is simple. My son likes your sister, and although my daughter also likes your brother, we will leave that out since I don’t want to offend some of the lords who are asking for her hand, and go out under the guise that we intend to hire your family as our attendants. Each of your sisters for my sons, your mother for me, your brother for my daughter, you would have your own tasks as the squire, and your father would be there for common tasks such as wood cutting and such.”
Zara had everything thought out. As if she had been planning this for a long time and wasn’t something she just came up with on the whim yesterday after learning of Redford’s treachery.
It was simple yet clean, so her plan had almost no holes. One could have wondered why she was also taking my family, but she cleared that up by saying that her son fancied Sandra, and she wished to have her as her son’s concubine.
That would elevate our status as well, making it so that no one in the town, the rich, or the other squires, could question my family or scorn them for being there.
Anyhoo…
“Make preparations. We leave tomorrow, at first sunlight.”
That meant inform your family and tell them to drop everything. She also told me to relay the news about Colton’s intentions for Sandra, since my family would have to be fooled by the same lie everyone else would be. Couldn’t leave holes in the story, now could we?
And so, I returned home around noon to find everyone busy. Rayla was in the kitchen cutting vegetables, Julian was studying something, and the kids were probably training.
“Ahem,” I said, gathering both parents’ attention.
“Oh, Jack. You’re back.” Rayla beamed, coming out of the kitchen and approaching me, unfortunately, fully dressed.
I smiled and hugged her, letting her know why I wasn’t home yesterday.
“We know. A soldier came by to inform us.” Rayla replied while still in my embrace as my hands snaked down to her massive, bubbly ass.
She didn’t say anything and just let me go, but didn’t back away much so that her cushiony ass could still be in my hands.
“Mother, father, I have news. But first, we all need to gather.” I said, utmost seriousness on my face. Well, anyone who was normal would find that funny because how could anyone take me seriously while I was fondling my mother’s massive butt?
But, thank goodness for the kind of world it was. No such thing mattered here.
“What is it?” Julian asked, with a slight worry in his tone, while Rayla also expressed the same worry via her expression.
“It is good news, do not fret, but it concerns Sandra and all of us, so we need to be together,” I replied.
“Alright,” Julian said and left to call the kids while Rayla and I moved to the living room with one of my hands on her ass and the other one busy taking off her skirt.
By the time she was out of her skirt, and we sat down next to each other, my hand going straight into her thigh to rub her dry snatch, the rest of the family had joined us and sat down in a circle in the living room on the couches.
“What is it, Jack?” Sandra asked.
“A proposal has come from Lady Zara,” I replied while inserting two fingers inside Rayla, making her moan.
“What kind of proposal?” Julian asked.
“She wishes for Sandra to be her son’s concubine,” I replied.
“Have I not already made my stance clear on that?” Sandra asked with annoyance dripping in her tone.
“I understand, sister. And under normal circumstances, I would have never entertained the idea.” I replied.
Well, normal circumstances would have been marrying her off to someone to have someone else’s dick, but that wasn’t possible in this world, so I wasn’t against her marrying someone. I would have stopped it otherwise if it were any other world.
Anyway, since there was no other dick involved, marrying Sandra and Martha wouldn’t be a problem. All the better if I benefited from it and kept them close as well.
“What is it then?” Sandra asked.
“This is an opportunity,” I replied.
“For what?” Sandra asked.
“To elevate our status.” I replied, “You don’t have to love him, you just simply have to string him along.”
“String him along? Does that involve tying him with a string?” Sandra asked with a strange expression.
Right. Not modern times.
“You just have to pretend you like him, and keep him at bay. There is no need to get involved deeply with him. Once our status has been elevated, we will deal with him.” I replied.
“Deal with him how?” Lucas asked.
“That is for when the time comes.” I brushed it off and added, “And you are also involved.”
“How so?” Lucas asked.
“It is an open secret that young lady Cassandra fancies you. If both of you marry into that house, it would be all the more advantageous for us.” I replied.
“You do know that I would be nothing more than a concubine, right? I would have no real power.” Sandra stated.
While Colton did fancy Sandra, Zara wouldn’t accept anyone but a woman of high status for her son. So Sandra could only get as far as a concubine.
It wasn’t much, but there was nothing to worry about there.
“It is fine. Once our status is no longer that of commoners, I would do everything in my power to get us a nobility status. Then we wouldn’t need them anyway. But we need to enter the nobility to make that possible. You two would be our bridge for that.” I explained my reason and ambition in one long sentence.
Sandra fell into deep thought after hearing me out, but Lucas had other ideas as he said, making his stance clear, “I will do no such thing. I really do like young lady Cassandra, so if I marry her, I will marry her forever.”
“And no one’s saying anything about that. It’s only for those who don’t want to be married all their life.” I replied, pointing at Sandra.
“What if he wants children? I would be tied to him then.” Sandra raised a point.
I still had limited knowledge when it came to children, so I didn’t know how to answer that question, but Julian beat me to it. “Lady Zara wouldn’t do that before her son sires a child with a noble lady. You would be fine until then.”
I guess he was on board with that answer. Martha didn’t have any input, but she was mature enough to understand what was happening. Rayla was moaning and nodding along, but wasn’t saying anything, which meant she agreed with everything.
Lucas nodded once I told him his option as well, and Sandra, who once again contemplated for a long time, finally nodded and replied, “Very well. I will do that for the sake of our family. But I want you to help me when I am married to him.”
“How so?” I asked.
“Anything that goes against the plan. Make some excuses using your status and that slick tongue of yours.” I could tell Sandra wasn’t exactly happy with that final part, but I nodded in agreement.
“Worry not. If by chance anything related to children happened, and if you wanted to leave him after our objective is complete, I would make that happen.” I replied.
She nodded in relief and replied, “Then I have no qualms.”
Once everyone was okay with it and Rayla also moaned in agreement, I notified them of the next part of the plan.
The adventure in the woods. The excuse was that Lady Zara wanted to find her husband, and she would be bringing us along as her future in-laws. But since she had to quell the other servants and officials, we would be going as attendants, with the exception of Lucas and Sandra, who would be going as butler and maid candidates for Cassandra and Colton, respectively.
Once that was done, I told them all to get ready while Rayla came on my hand after about half an hour of planning and fingering.
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Three chapters in a row. Two for the absences, and one as an apology. I hope you guys understand. Anyways, enjoy. Well, not much to enjoy since story is coming up, and not a lot of lemons.
