As Katherine matured into a young woman, she was looking more and more like her mother and gaining some of her traits. However, she wasn't mature enough, yet, to realize she couldn't win going against her. The young woman was in love and saw an opportunity to get what her older brother couldn't. A chance to be with the person her heart chose, not marry a partner of her mother's choosing.<br/><br/>Katherine watched the change in Ewan's face and knew that he knew what she wanted to talk about. Any lingering doubt she had that he was her mother's secret lover and it had been affair going on since before Nicholas' birth, disappeared. A man with nothing to hide, would not have a change in his demeanor like that. It made her angry. Henry was a good man and he deserved better then this. Once she and Simon were safe, far away from both the Duchess and the Prince and able to live out their lives together, she'd expose her mother for what she truly was, a whore and a controlling bitch. Once Katherine could have what she wanted, she'd make sure younger siblings wouldn't have Victoria controlling the rest of their lives. The younger ones would be happy and her father would be too, once Victoria was destroyed.<br/><br/>"I will be there."<br/><br/>Katherine replied quietly, nodding her head at the balcony. The wait made her even more determined to do what needed to be done. She wouldn't be like Alexander. Be married to someone, that at most she could be 'fond of'. No, she'd be with Simon. She loved him and that is the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Simon was the one she wanted to marry and have children with. The threats of the affair and the aftermath it would have on Victoria would guarantee that she'd have the future she wanted. After all, Ewan wouldn't suffer too much from the fall out, unless he wanted to marry Victoria. Then that would severely be looked down on. Wouldn't help his own bid for his brother's crown if he wanted to marry a harlot who cheated on her husband for over a decade. Her father would recover, he'd be the victim in it all, and while her siblings wouldn't be the first or even last pick of a noble family as an in-law, they'd be free of Victoria's wrath. All four of her siblings would thank her in the end.<br/><br/>What Katherine didn't know was that Ewan knew about her and Simon. She had no idea he had been spying on her. She naively thought, she was holding that card to her chest and no one else knew about her love for the gardener. Katherine let him talk and narrowed her eyes at the arrogant prince. Too bad a scandal like this didn't affect men the way it did women. She would have loved to see Ewan knocked off his high horse. Although making her mother suffer would surely bring him a little bit of pain, though.<br/><br/>"No, I am not ready to go back and you think too highly of yourself."<br/><br/>Katherine replied, keeping her voice low. No, she definitely did not have crush on him, nor would she ever. He wasn't the type of man she'd ever be attracted too, even if he wasn't sleeping with her mother. She added with a very knowing look.<br/><br/>"I know you enjoy the company of older women, especially one in particular. I know exactly what type of man you are and who comforted you the night you buried your young wife. That woman that means something to both us of."<br/><br/>Aeronwen hadn't been cold in her grave before the prince had sought out Victoria. For Ewan, Victoria might mean love, but she didn't mean that to Katherine. Victoria was her mother by blood but she wasn't a mother in her heart. Katherine was tired of being afraid of her, being controlled by her. She needed to be destroyed and a public scandal would do it. It would destroy Victoria and all her dreams of a throne. It would make sure Katherine and her younger siblings would have the lives they wanted, not lives picked out for them. Henry could someday find someone worthy of him. It was all for the greater good, she told herself. By getting what she wanted, everyone she did care about in her family would benefit as well in the end. Lives would better for them with Victoria gone.<br/><br/>"It would cause quite a scandal and ruin that woman if it became public knowledge. Do you not think so, your highness?"