Woke Up And I'm A Married Woman (17 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 96

When a spark suddenly flew toward me, Cedar fiercely twisted his face and snatched Lady Briar’s wrist.

“Mother!”

Startled by his rough action, Lady Briar’s eyes widened in surprise. Fluttering her long eyelashes as if she couldn’t believe it, she asked,

“Are you really holding my wrist… because of your wife?”

“Yes, I am. Don’t take out your frustrations about our issues on my wife.”

“I sensed it even at the ball—you truly love your wife. Then this is precisely not the time to be so stubborn. Now that you have a wife, you’ll soon have a child. Shouldn’t you proudly inherit the dukedom?”

At the mention of a child, I instinctively covered my stomach with both hands.

A child—something I’d never once considered in my whole life.

‘Right. Since we’re married, a child could come.’

I shrank back at the thought of this unexpected possibility, and Lady Briar’s eyes instantly gleamed.

Tears welling up, she changed her appeal.

“You may have willingly given up the dukedom, but what about your child? Because of you, that child would lose what should have been theirs—the title of Duke Grenit. Are you really prepared to be such inadequate parents?”

People can readily answer when their own interests are at stake, but they often fall silent when others are harmed.

Cedar, too, seemed not to have considered that his own child might lose a title and fortune, and his face hardened.

Yet he remained unmoved and coldly cut off his mother’s words.

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