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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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245 Chs

Between Raindrops

Celia stood at the edge of the courtyard, sheltered from the rain under a small overhang. She knew she was awfully close to shedding tears.

Lucas had not only known that she yearned to see the group of new friends she'd made over the summer, he'd taken it upon himself to find a pretext to arrange a visit. At no benefit to himself.

Actually, the opposite was the case. If Tobin were to hear that Celia had been brought here, Lucas was risking his prince's anger. Yet he still did it.

Because he wanted to see her smile, he'd said.

Those were probably the loveliest, most poignant words anyone had ever said to her.

She wanted to say something to him, to acknowledge what he'd done for her, but what? How to explain the warm glow his deeds had caused to bloom in her heart?

Anything she said would probably end up drowned out by the sound of rain pelting down into the courtyard and on the surrounding roofs.