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The Loneliest Ballad

“You must bear a child, Celia. what good is a woman who isn’t a mother? What good is an empty womb?” “Especially when it’s a foreign womb, like yours…” It’s not an easy life when you’re watched month after month, when all the blame is placed at your feet for your young husband having no heir. Celia Devon Tralhamir, Crown Princess of Havietten, waits every month with hope mingled with fear. A child will secure her future. But it will also bind her for life to a husband she neither loves or respects, who refuses to see her abilities. Is that what she wants? Is she content to prioritise security over happiness, and be a wordless decorative vessel all her life? Or is she brave enough to try to forge her own path and seize fulfilment on her own terms? Even in a society that cannot recognise individual brilliance in a mere woman. A sequel to the WEBNOVEL book “Earning the Love of a Princess”, this novel follows another woman born into the Royal House of Devon, trying to fight the confines that threaten to stifle her happiness.

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The longer she stood under Lucas's intense, concerned stare, the more jittery Celia felt.

She knew there was no malicious or dishonest intent behind his gaze. He was simply worried she'd been hurt in the fall and was refusing to tell him.

Sadly, the same honest intentions weren't drawing her eyes to him.

Lucas was biting his lip distractedly as he carefully looked her over for injuries, water droplets still clinging to his lashes. He was wearing a cream coloured shirt, now translucent and slicked to his lithe frame. The sodden fabric let Celia clearly see the lines of his broad shoulders, the curve of his biceps and his slim, hard waist.

He was just beautiful and it all struck her as very unfair.

Because being attracted to him was hard enough to endure. But even worse was knowing that what she felt for the man was now stretching far beyond mere attraction.

The realisation was devastating her.