Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 217

“…Mother…”

Talia, who had silently let her into the room, spoke those words first.

Rahelica didn’t believe the girl truly didn’t understand the situation—she was simply struggling to accept a truth too painful to bear unless she heard it from someone else’s lips.

“She’s gone.”

Iris never made it out of the burning imperial palace that day.

Rahelica had believed she would die alongside her.

—Until she met Reshit Amaren, Talia’s husband.

Though this was surely something Talia had anticipated, she flinched as if struck.

“And the others…?”

“Father is dead. Orienn is dead too.”

“…Ha. So Orienn is gone as well.”

Then Talia roughly dragged her hands down her face. Rahelica knew her sister’s grief had nothing to do with love for her brother—it was the shock of losing even Orienn, who had been groomed as heir, amidst this chaos.

After covering her face with both hands for a moment, Talia spoke in a subdued voice.

“We have to tell Helena.”

“Lord Amaren has already sent a letter.”

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