I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 174

“It’d be best to make another child.”

“What did you say?”

Clodel’s stunned reply sounded to Duke Vermonde as if she were agreeing, and he perked up.

“If we’re driven out like this, everything will fizzle out. After all the effort we’ve put into strangling that bastard’s life, we can’t possibly let that happen.”

“I can’t live with him anymore.”

She barely whispered.

“It’s impossible.”

The days when she longed to be by Kai An’s side now felt incredibly distant.

There had been a time when she truly loved that man—when winning his heart felt precious, and his warmth so dear that she fretted endlessly over whether he might turn his eyes to another woman.

She’d even gone so far as to say she didn’t mind if he met with Madame Marcel, and that she’d pretend not to notice if he openly took a lover inside the castle, as long as he treated her warmly like he used to.

But now all those feelings had shattered into sharp, jagged fragments like scattered shards of glass.

Just thinking of Kai An made Clodel feel as if she were rolling her heart over sharp glass splinters—excruciatingly painful.

She couldn’t possibly live beside him even for a single day.

Because her hopes had been so sincere, Clodel’s heart had grown dark; because she’d held onto hope so tightly, the depths of her despair were now profound.

“I won’t even ask to return to Valmont Castle.”

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