Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 128

“You know as well as I do that sometimes family can be the cruelest of all.”

The woman reacted immediately to the remark that hinted at her father. Ophelia saw the instinctive aversion toward her father clouding Anika’s expression.

“My own brother was like that too. He did things without hesitation that even strangers with no blood relation shouldn’t do.”

And Ophelia briefly wondered whether it was appropriate to say this to Anika. After all, Anika wasn’t someone close enough to her for such confidences.

But she had no faction of her own. The merchants and Egelbamot nobles she had associated with in her previous life hadn’t even shown their faces, and among the Edegroon nobles, there wasn’t a single person she could trust.

Staret, the only person she could truly control, was dead. His death hadn’t merely meant losing one ally.

Would the pirates under Staret really look favorably upon the Aglante royal family?

It was no different from making yet another enemy. Salode had known this too but had beheaded Staret anyway for the sake of public sentiment. It had been unavoidable, given that Idren’s support base was the common people.

And even Salode himself was no ally of hers. In the end, Ophelia found herself in a position where she had to win over at least one person to her side.

Anika had appeared before her at just the right moment.

Then sharing one little secret wouldn’t be too steep a price to pay, would it?

Having reached her conclusion, Ophelia spoke.

“Before I married the King, I actually had a fiancé. Though he wasn’t someone I chose for myself, he was a very kind man.”

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Walking down the corridor after her conversation with the Queen Consort ended, Anika sorted through what she’d just heard in her mind. The Queen Consort’s words to her had been deeply shocking.

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