[Months from now and probably months longer while he nurses the bit of heartbreak at her and Cross being a thing.]

...I see. [He thinks of Dudley, there were rumors even in the records of history that he read of their dalliance and his marriage to someone else. But Lavi was wise enough not to ask clarification.]

You do these things because of the mantel you wear, were you not a queen you would not venture to spill the blood of any man or steal the purse of another. They are the Queen, these prices paid, they are not my lady Elizabeth. [He will be vehement in this.]