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Chapter 128: Postwar Settlement part 1

On the night the pitched battle ended, I stayed up late talking with Ria, just the two of us, about how to handle the postwar settlement.

Recruiting the head of state himself and one of the more powerful nobles— King Amado and Count Khalifa—was straightforward enough. The real problem was how to deal with the two great noble houses that had just lost their lords: the Burke marquisate and the House of Gantz.

If we mishandled them, it could shake the very foundations of the new state.

Villis Burke had already been handed over to Lord Leister, and as the ringleader he had no hope of escaping a death sentence. How to treat the Burke marquisate he left behind was going to be a major issue.

The House of Gantz, which had dragged the city into turmoil yet again, had also lost its claimant, Count Jurgen’s nephew Benjamin, cut down by Sharon, who