Chapter 201: Let lose

Dedicating todays chapter to Linda_Kellams_4370.

" Sacrifices?" Bree raised her head and looked at Blaise as she repeated what he has just said, now she understood what was going in the head of the Duke, he needed to get the Phoenix offspring away from this territory but with them and the imperial guards being here, he cannot do that. She turned to look at Yakov and softly asked, " Did the Duke try to move the children last night, is this the reason you were so late in coming back?" 

Yakov left the palace under the pretext that he was only going for a lookout and nothing else but he didn't return till the morning, just what kind of lookout was he doing that he couldn't return after an hour or so?