Pregnant With The Wolf's Child (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 109

“Larien…?”

Jade’s hazy eyes, as he rose from the floor, gradually came into focus.

“Kyaaaah!”

Charlotte took a step back, dropped her dagger, and fled. I found the sight of her running away rather amusing.

She had tried to stab me to death herself, yet panicked and ran off the moment she saw blood.

“Larien, what in the world is going—”

Jade swiftly pulled me into his arms. The wound on my waist was deep enough that the red blood had thoroughly soaked my dress.

‘It hurts…’

Fortunately, I’d pushed him away, so Jade appeared unharmed.

In that instant, all I could think was that I had to protect him.

“Jade… Charlotte, Wins is alive. She didn’t die of the plague in prison, okay?”

That day, coincidentally, had been when Grand Duke Yucis visited—and the plague had broken out in the prison.

I should have paid closer attention instead of dismissing it so carelessly…

‘That’s why clamentine, which dulls nerves and slows reactions, was slipped into the wine.’

It was unmistakably Grand Duke Yucis who had pulled Charlotte out of prison and ordered her to kill Jade.

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