Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 368

Cardinal de Mare spoke in a calm tone.

“I’m sorry to make such a difficult request.”

“…”

“Of course, I know it wouldn’t be difficult at all for Your Highness to take in and safely protect just one daughter of mine—even if I were excommunicated, my name erased from every document, my living body left to wander the streets until death, and every person in the world threw stones at the bloodline of de Mare.”

Cardinal de Mare’s voice was quiet, yet he gazed intently at Prince Alfonso with piercing eyes.

“But my daughter isn’t the kind of girl who’d be satisfied with that. You understand what I mean.”

Ariadne was not a woman who desired the position of a royal consort. If that had been her only goal, she would have achieved it long ago.

And in truth, what she sought was no longer status itself. If all she wanted was to become queen, she could have already worn the queen’s tiara as the second wife of Leo III.

She wanted the full, rightful place beside an upright man. In Alfonso’s mind, she was the perfect woman for such a position—gracious, principled, and elegant.

“I understand your meaning very clearly.”

Prince Alfonso spoke with firm conviction.

“I will protect Ari well.”

Protect her? This journey to Trevero itself was being undertaken precisely to crown her with a diadem worthy of her grace.

“And her place is right beside me—the seat of the Crown Princess. Your Eminence need not worry about that.”

A look of relief passed briefly across Cardinal de Mare’s face, surely because he now believed his daughter was in safe hands.

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