Selected as the New Stepmother (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 99

I did not keep you beside me merely as a tool to check Artenbach.

Slowly opening his eyes, the Crown Prince spoke with deliberate emotion.

“I truly cared for you. Even knowing you coveted ambitions and power you could never attain, I still did.”

Hegelia rose from her seat and grasped the Crown Prince’s leg.

“Your Highness, I can never leave the palace. Please, only grant me the union, and I shall give you the imperial succession.”

“Hegelia, do you really think I know nothing?”

The Crown Prince’s gaze was consumed by profound loneliness.

“I know what conversations you had with Arion. And I know you long for the child who swore to forget me.”

“I… Your Highness!”

“You were never Artenbach’s weakness—you were mine.”

Hegelia’s body trembled as she held his leg, feeling as if she stood before a final ultimatum.

“I cannot accept it. Divorce? That is absolutely out of the question, Your Highness.”

“If you refuse to accept divorce, I will send you to the royal villa on Roded Island.”

“Roded… you can’t mean…”

The Crown Prince clenched his lips. He had to cut this short before it grew worse. It was painful, but the seat he occupied demanded too many sacrifices.

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